Hello Terrence, I suspect that using Festival with Speakup and Orca could cause the problem. How did you manage to get Festival work with Speech-dispatcher and Speakup? I tried this and didn't succeed. Orca and Speakup both need the Festival server running, and that is maybe what causes the trouble. Do you use Ubuntu 7.04? If so, you can use Orca with Espeak. Switch to it in the orca speech settings by choosing Espeak as speech synthesizer. Hermann
