Paul Hunt wrote: > Can someone tell me if speech-dispatcher has to be run as a system process rather than a user one? Both should be possible. Which instance is used is controlled via the port number. If you run SD on a port number other than the default one, you must indicate it to its clients. > When I do modprobe speakup_soft start=1 and speechd-up -d as indicated by Willum I don't get any > errors but nothing happens if I try to switch to a console and type something. Does spd-say work? Best regards, Tomas