This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed. Here are all the related needed packages: Text to speech software: apt-get install kdeaccessibility apt-get install sox apt-get install xsltproc Related Document: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.4/kdeacces...using-kapp.html Festival is also needed for this: Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter. Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text. festival festival-doc Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com