Hi, well I've now installed speak, and it seems to work fine. However, when I try to integrate it with speech-dispatcher, no sound is produced. here's the line from speechd.conf that should do the trick. addmodule "speak" "sd_generic" "espeak-generic.com" "/var/log/espeak.log" and defaultmodule speak However, while speak works fine on its own, spd-say and speechd-up don't seem to work. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong here? tia, Arthur. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com