-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Normally, it would be best to just speak the data with a straight-forward speak command line. However, some bugs have come up, possibly in the portaudio interface that cause problems when doing this. There is also a comment in the module that suggests there is some kind of bug with punctuation characters when running the speak command in this way. I also noticed a decrease in responsiveness in eSpeak 1.16 when using the speak command without a pipe, but this is something new to versions later than 1.13, most likely having to do with portaudio19. HTH, 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) iD8DBQFFI/3ZG9IpekrhBfIRAkIrAJ92TbtRwsUt6WfqfxNIVcUJ1aHXaACbBKvi DRLOBi++hU0D+WlhKKL+/AU= =1mNs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----