Hi, Installed SuSE 7.0 then upgraded the kernel to 2.4.9. Also upgraded the alsa modules from the source on the Alsa site. After downlodaing and installing the IBM ViaVoice TTS Runtime Kit and Developers Kit I am unable to make any examples work. They seem to hang after initialising and then do nothing. I them ctrl+c the program and get on with some other work. After about 20mins (maybe more), my computer will suddenly come up with the mechanical "Hello world" or whatever, causing me to leap 10ft into the air. Anyway I can get this working. I did have it working on an old Mandrake installation, but have no idea what is different with the SuSE one? Cheers, Tom _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com