Charles Hallenbeck p??e v P? 09. 06. 2006 v 07:35 -0400: > Here is my problem. When I activate the festival daemon and make the > necessary modifications to speechd.confand festival.conf in > speech-dispatcher, and also to /etc/festival.scm, switching to sftsyn in > speakup does not produce speech. You can also test Speech Dispatcher with the command spd-say "hello" through -o you can switch modules etc., see 'spd-say -h' spd-say -o espeak "hello" spd-say -o festival "hello" Apart from testing, this utility can come handy in scripts. > (defvar server_access_list '(hq\.hhs\.com)) Most likely, you are getting rejected by the server because of server_access_list. I think it should be (defvar server_access_list '("hq.hhs48.com")) this name must be defined in /etc/hosts.conf with the appropriate IP address. Telnet to the host and port as you gave an example is a good immediate way to check whether this issue is still present. With regards, Hynek