xspeakfree is a Tcl/Tk (wish) frontend to Speak Freely. Installing should be pretty easy. Install at least sfspeaker and sfmike into a directory in your execution search path (environment variable PATH). Make sure you have wish (Tcl/Tk) installed in your search path as well. If you don't have Tcl/Tk, its freely available from Sun at: http://www.scriptics.com/ xspeakfree can be run directly out of this directory, but if you wish to have xspeakfree stored in /usr/local/bin or some other place it is easier to use install.sh than playing around with things to make it work. So you have two options: 1) Place this directory somplace and run xspeakfree from it. 2) install xspeakfree into someplace like /usr/local/bin For option one, to run xpseakfree run: /bin/xspeakfree and your off. For option two, make sure you can write to the directory you wish to install into. I recommend /usr/local, but its up to you. To install xspeakfree, simply run install.sh by typing this command line: ./install.sh should be the directory you want to install xspeakfree. ie: ./install.sh /usr/local then just run xspeakfree: /bin/xspeakfree or simply xspeakfree if it is now in your search path.