All, My speechd-up home page on github is http://www.github.com/williamh/speechd-up. You can clone the repository by doing: git clone git://github.com/williamh/speechd-up.git This repository contains all of the changes from ospeakup, and I am planning to move forward from there. My plan for speechd-up is to give it a -u option so that you can tell it to switch to a different user before it tries to connect to speech-dispatcher, that way we can use the autospawn feature and not have speech-dispatcher or speechd-up running system wide. What does everyone else think of that option? William