I have tried using Festival to read a text document and it appears that the ESD Sound Daemon is sometimes processing two lots of speech at once making it incomprehensible. I am not familiar with ESD. The man page and /usr/share/docs are non-existant. I use the command "festival --tts text.txt" and this has worked on Red Hat previously when I compiled Festival from source. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Paul Clark