-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am experiencing the same problem using espeak 1.16 and portaudio 19 on Debian. Also, if the first line of text starts with a punctuation by itself, I get immediately returned to the command prompt and nothing is spoken. Thanks, Lorenzo - -- I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFI6SXG9IpekrhBfIRAuCJAJwLwYgqxeYd8Jx5/pFwNNBv8LJjbACgh6j4 Io6bofS88pcuBZ33jY+qpO4= =vUqd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----