Hermann wrote: > Orca and Speakup both need the Festival server running, and that is > maybe what causes the trouble. It is possible if you run Orca with the Speech Dispatcher backend (see http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher). The only problem I can think of would be if Orca tries to start the Gnome Speech Festival driver at startup. A very dirty solution to this problem would be to remove "gnomespeechfactory" form the configuration variable 'speechFactoryModules' in the file 'settings.py' within your Orca instalation directory ('/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/' by default). Please let me know if that helps. If that's the case, I'll try to find way to avoid this conflict without such dirty tricks. Best regards, Tomas