Hi Guenni, Thanks for the response. I wasn't getting any espeak output after the error though in retrospect I think the install had some other issues. So to clarify, even with this error you got Speakup/espeakup/espeak working in Karmic? Might have to do a festive re-install. Cheers, Garry On 12/20/09, Anne G?nther <ag82lca at leseguenni.de> wrote: > Hi Garry > I had the same problem when I tried to use espeakup in karmic. > practical solution: just press enter. It works fine anyway, despite the > error message. > possible cause: I don't know for sure either. But since I had installed > ubuntu with the accessibility profile and there is somewhat of a > pulse-no pulse accessibility mess, I thought this error message was > because of that as well. *shrugs*. > hth Guenni > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >