You're right. I believe I did make an error in my message. I do apologize for the confusion. The correct line to change is the resample-method directive. It should read: resample-method=src-sinc-best-quality The other things are correct, and on my system, speechd is working perfectly. See the forum thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66428 for more details about the problem and the corrections I used. Another thing that may explain why you are still having problems: are you running speechd in user mode or as a system daemon? I am running in user mode, and am having no problems, but I haven't tried running it system wide, so I don't know if the corrections I found will work in system mode. ~Kyle