> Hey all, the sound problem is fixed. I have a question > though, and it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher. > I installed S-D 0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in > a > > previous message, and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message > > that says "connection refused." Do I have to put festival in > some kind of daemon mode or something? Hello Guy, yes, you need to run Festival in the server mode. This is however likely not the cause of the problem you describe. If spd-say says it can't connect, it means it can't connec to Speech Dispatcher. So I'd bet Speech Dispatcher is not running. Please look at the end of /var/log/speech-dispatcher/speechd.log (or similar, I'm not sure where the Fedora Core package places the log files). If the file is empty, or you don't have any, chances are it was not possible to create the logfile on your system. Then try running Speech Dispatcher on the foreground like this speech-dispatcher -s -l 5 and see what does it print out on the console. One of these should give you a good idea about what is going wrong. If it is something non-trivial, please write us, since maybe the package needs fixing or something. With regards, Hynek Hanke -- ?et??m za inkoust p?i ka?d?m tisku. Zkus to u nich tak?! www.TisknuLevne.cz http://im.impact.as/sign/tisknulevne3/