Hi, I got speech-dispatcher working on my system. I am still a bit new, so take this advice with a grain of caution. When trying to start speech-dispatcher with the -d or -s switch, I kept getting an error about it having the wrong permission to create the pid file in /var/run/speech-dispatcher. Upon checking /var/run, I noticed that there is no folder called speech-dispatcher there. So, I created it but still had the same problem with the permissions. I had to use sudo in order to create the folder. So, I changed the permissions to 777, yes, I know you should only give 777 in rare cases, but I was just testing. I started speech-dispatcher with the -s option first and got some errors, but it did seem to start ok except it froze while waiting for client...? I think. So, on the second attempt I used -d to run it as a daemon. It worked. spd-say hello produced the expected output. So, for the brave hearted, here are the instructions to do what I did. If you know of a more secure way to do this, please let everyone know Open terminal. cd /var/run sudo mkdir speech-dispatcher sudo chmod 777 speech-dispatcher speech-dispatcher -d spd-say hello That should do it. Oh, for some reason, things like / or @ have an echo to them. Using the espeak US english voice. Hope this helps someone Storm
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