Hi Regrettably, orca does die. But with linux if a process dies you can simply restart it. Just press apt + F2 and type orca. You only need to reboot a Linux machine when you replace the kernel. HTH Gena On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:46 -0400, Fred Rains wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed Ubuntu Hardee this past weekend and was impressed that > speech works during the install. I lost speech a couple of times > during the install and had to start over, but I finally got it > installed. Now that I have it installed, I am losing speech quite > often and have to restart the machine to get speech back. I wanted to > find out if anyone else on the list is having this problem and if > there is a fix for it? I found some messages mentioning the problem > on other lists but didn't find a solution. Thanks in advance for any > help. > > Fred > -- Gena http://www.ready2golinux.com M0EBP __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind