When the terminal scrolls the screen, or overwrites the screen with the next, it will not update common characters, and hence will not speak them, resulting in spoken fragments. Hopefully people know what tthis means. If so, does anyone know how to make it straight text, without fancy updating calls? ps: thanks to the discussion about dynamically updated signatures and a simple Perl script, the signature now contains the currently playing song on the station. -- Currently playing: Demon Tea Recordings - James Repias & Polyphonic Stellar Juice - String of pearls Good Vibes Radio: http://clearwhitelight.org/goodvibes Omeron - Effortless Union with the Divine