Hi I'm new to this list, and to speakup. Although I have some experiences with linux and orca. Since I'm from Germany I tried to set espeakup to German. But after typing: talkwith espeakup --default-voice=de I got an error message: /usr/sbin/talkwith: 104: Syntax Error: Bad fd number What's the problem? And how do I get the guy to speak German? :) I loaded speakup as modules. Guenni