Hi Kenny, Are you using pulseaudio? If not, have you changed the default setting from pulse to alsa? Are you running speechd in your user session or have you done some not recommended things to run it in system wide mode? It's really hard to help without these informations :-(. In my kvm machine all seems work. I have already tested with orca. Regards Halim -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de