On 23.2.2011 01:18, Christopher Moore wrote: >It seems that spd-say thinks that speechd is a system-wide service > rather than a local service. Right. > application configuration or the value of the SPEECHD_ADDRESS environment variable. It says where it is taking the information from. Since spd-say has no application configuration, then you must have set the SPEECHD_ADDRESS variable. Try: env SPEECHD_ADDRESS Best regards, Hynek Hanke