>sorry to say that I experienced a crash of SD again. It doesn't happen >very often - every 2 or 3 days - but it still does happen. > /var/log/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.log > only tells that the connection was closed. Hello Hermann, could you please send me the logfile with the crash? You will first need to set LogLevel to 5 in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf . Are you sure it is a crash of SD and not SpeechD-Up? Is the process speech-dispatcher still running after that? Have a nice day, Hynek