Hello everyone, I've posted a message to hank, but I also thought I would post to the lists I'm apart of as well. Since speechd-up is required for software synthesizers for speakup, speech-dispatcher has to be working first according to the documentation. However, speech-dispatcher says the following in the speechd log file. It was compiled with alsa and pulse audio support. Sat Aug 2 04:12:30 2008 : 568112] speechd: G LIST LENGHT IS 2 [Sat Aug 2 04:12:30 2008 : 575929] speechd: ERROR: Can't list voices for module espeak-generic [Sat Aug 2 04:12:30 2008 : 584206] speechd: ERROR: Can't list voices for module espeak-generic [Sat Aug 2 04:12:40 2008 : 997614] speechd: Error: No output module seems to be working, using the dummy output module [Sat Aug 2 04:12:43 2008 : 424105] speechd: G LIST LENGHT IS 2 [Sat Aug 2 04:12:43 2008 : 438777] speechd: G LIST LENGHT IS 2 [Sat Aug 2 04:12:43 2008 : 628414] speechd: ERROR: Can't list voices for module espeak [Sat Aug 2 04:12:44 2008 : 353283] speechd: Error: No output module seems to be working, using the dummy output module [Sat Aug 2 04:12:44 2008 : 353349] speechd: Error: No output module seems to be working, using the dummy output module [Sat Aug 2 04:12:44 2008 : 353361] speechd: Error: No output module working, not even dummy, no sound produced! I don't quite understand what's going on. Thank you, Alonzo