On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Rynhardt P Kruger wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem on my grml 1.1 rc1 box. > Often speech-dispatcher will crash, with nothing in the log and no message on the console. It just did it again while I > was typing the previous sentence. When that happen, I have to killall speechd-up and than start speech-dispatcher and > speechd-up again. Ok. I sometimes get this problem. (It happens a bit but not as much as what you said) I just wrote myself a script I run (its in my path) and I get speech back. I guess I could try the espeak driver but haven't had time. My simple script is at: http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/projects/restart-speech-0.3.tgz You probably already thought of this... -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ d.dalton at iinet.net.au