>>>>> "TC" == Tomas Cerha <cerha at brailcom.org> writes: TC> Hi Michael, you definitely need to run the editor as root to get TC> read/write access to the file. I'm not sure, but you may need to TC> specify an absolute path with sudo. Instead of using sudo, TC> however, it is often more convenient to switch the current user TC> using the su command or loging in as root on another console. Hi, maybe the other possibility is include speechd-up.conf with full path from your home directory where you can have rights for editing. The line in speechd.conf can seems so for example: Include "/home/buchal/sdclients/speechd-up.conf" Best -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 24 24 86 008 Mob: (00420) 608023021