Hi, I have previously in the last year or so posted on this subject of Speech-Dispatcher and SMP. I had previously back when testing my friend Shaun's system thought that it was only to AMD Athlon X2 3800 plus dual-core processors. I found out, that I was wrong. About four weeks ago, I tested the latest stable GRML using the grml swspeak speechd boot option at the Isolinux boot prompt on my Intel laptop. My Fujitsu laptop is pretty new. Well, shortly there after, speech crashed, again. So, I did this: Speechd-up -v Grml uses Speechd-up 0.1, wich is extremely old and out-of-date. Even the last stable release contains severe bugs. The CVS builds contain latest bug fixes. In edition to this, I discovered that GRML was using an RC version (not stable!) version of Speech-Dispatcher! Why is this? The issues seem to be caused when using Espeak-generic, and speechd-up 0.1, and Speech-Dispatcher. whether it is Speech-Dispatcher itself though, or simply Speechd-up, I don't know. In any case, I strongly suggest the espeakup interface over the Speechd-up interface (to the point of you folks ripping it completely out) It is odd though, because I thought that at least Speech-Dispatcher would contain some improvements? They were fixing SMP bugs last time I checked. Although if it is an RC version, I am not surprised. Although it may very well be an old version of Speechd-up itself. I will perform another test, on March 20, when I have some time. This time, I'll attempt to execute an instance of the Speechd-up software by typing speechd-up again, to see if it is the Dispatcher process crashing. I will also find out if there are any speech-dispatcher log levels generated through output of log contents (if any). Because Speech-Dispatcher is an interface wich uses the TCP/IP protocol, and is a client/server model, if it was Speechd-up crashing, and not Speech-Dispatcher, then it will probably generate some form of client/module disconnection in the log files. I will report back hear with more test results. Regards, --Keith