Hey hey!! Progress rocks!!! I got speech-dispatcher running if I invoke it from the command line with sudo speech-dispatcher. My log is being sent to stdout, but I'm sure the next time I run it, it'll be logged to a file. I'm assuming it's just because I haven't had speechd.log. Now for the million dollar question. What is the easiest way to get speech-dispatcher to start as a service when I boot. Can you give me an example of proper rc.d syntax to do this? Do I then have to run some kind of update? Thanks again, in advance for the help. Guy At 04:37 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote: >Hi, >I work with Ubuntu 7.04, the latest Orca and SD as speech system, >and I never had to create /var/run/speech-dispatcher directory manually. >I remember however, that Krishnakant reports the same problem as he >tried to set up SD for Orca. >So I think that this issue should be investigated further. >Hermann