-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My only reason for skipping aplay was the slight performance increase of using eSpeak's own code to play the sound instead of having to store a wav file and load aplay to play it. The performance increase is very small on my AMD Athlon XP 1800+ machine, but it makes a difference on my laptop, which is supposed to have a 2.8ghz pentium processor but runs much slower than this box. So far, since I am using aplay again, the cutoff bug has completely gone away. HTH, Lorenzo - -- Beware the one behind you. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE268JG9IpekrhBfIRAtP2AJ9JUzpziD5Ok/gKS6DwHmu5BT3U7wCghcZx mQ44Ew36QZxvBYILy1VYDnE= =egGf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----