Hi, Ok, When telneted to speech-dispatcher you can send SPEAK then hit then type something and then enter then a period and enter again, to see where the problem is. You can also while telneted to speech-dispatcher type LIST output_modules to see what modules are loaded. Finally you can check what modules are loaded by running ps -e | grep sd_. This sort of thing is a bit easier to sort out over irc, if you like I am tbsaunde on freenode. Trev