Try spd-say "some words to say" from the command-line and if it does not speak, look in the logs. They are usually in /var/log/speech-dispatcher. Regards, Willem On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > Hello! > Yes, dispatcher is working, but it doesn't say anything. > /kristoffer > ----- Original Message ----- From: <trev.saunders at gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 4:23 PM > Subject: Re: speech dispatcher with speakup > > > > Hi, > > > > that is error is harmless, the daemon should still start. check by running > > ps -e | grep speech-dispatcher, you should see a speech-dispatcher process > > running. If it is running you can test that it is infact usable by > > telneting to port 6560 on localhost. There will we a opentts releease very > > soon, but currently you have to get opentts with from > > git://git.opentts.org/opentts.git. > > > > HTH > > Trev > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.