that could be any number of things, what's your processor speed, physical RAM, and kernel version number? > I've noticed that when I play mp3s and read text in another window it > tends to make the mp3 sound distort, does anyone know what could be > causing this? because if I disable speakup and let it continu with > incomming text it doesn't distort the sound. I only get the distortion > with speakup running, any ideas?