-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks. The -k option works fine now. As for the cut-off bug I mentioned, I am using speech-dispatcher when it happens. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it using the speak command directly, either using the -f option to read it from a file or sending it on the command line. However, the problem seems to go away when I change the espeak-generic.conf file in speech-dispatcher so that it creates a wav file and uses aplay to play it. Note that this is how the espeak-generic.conf file that is shipped with speech-dispatcher works. I had just changed it to eliminate the extra step. But apparently somehow that was causing the problem, although I'm not sure why. Thanks much, Lorenzo - -- "Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none." -- Shakespeare -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2jqBG9IpekrhBfIRAjYXAKCifY+O1AxqHBkBoqqcFM+SD0oSwgCeNO4T Afqe2IPMYBtHSRcr//pjQnU= =R3yu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----