So now that I have speech-dispatcher installed, when I try to test it, I get a rather odd error message: spd-say "hi" Failed to connect to Speech Dispatcher: Error: Can't connect to unix socket /run/user/1001/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock: No such file or directory. Autospawn: Autospawn failed. Speech Dispatcher refused to start with error code, stating this as a reason: When I manually go sudo speech-dispatcher No error pops up. When I looked at grep speech-dispatcher /var/log/daemon.log All I saw was: Jul 9 05:36:44 trainserve speech-dispatcher[4767]: speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher. So I went in there and it says run=no So I changed that to yes. No go; same error. There is a folder /var/log/speech-dispatcher but the only thing in there is a file called cicero-executable.log and it is empty. Appreciate any help here. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup