Hi. I am trying to get speakup and speech dispatcher working together and have a strange problem -- if I use speech dispatcher 0.67 speechd-up connects and works fine, if I upgrade to 0.7.1 it refuses to connect, even if I change the communication method to inet_socket. Can anyone tell me how to fix this -- it looks like speechd-up just calls spd_open, so do I need to change speech dispatcher or what? Any suggestions appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com