-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Willem and Hynek, Thanks for those suggestions. I used my fully qualified host name instead of localhost, since that is the first entry in /etc/hosts on the line that begins with 127.0.0.1. The docs say to use that first item in place of localhost in case localhost is not the first item following 127.0.0.1. I put the quotes around the domain name in the server-access-list entry, restarted festival, but got the same results. Those are great tips about spd-say and switching software synths, by the way. But I still have a puzzling roadblock here. It does seem like a failure of the domain name, but I can't seem to find a suitable way to code that entry. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (94% of Full) Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEiWwXXnuiIOyDVQURAi9AAJ9M+1vXl3oEa3Ldnofn3qHy/2KN5gCgjVu3 uv0acCSvkRsNIuArco2z+XY= =vUMI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
