In article <20061005024001.GA3633 at lnx3.holmesgrown.com>, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote: > I would be interested in the option to skip portaudio because if we > can do it without, I would like to make it easier to package espeak > up for use with Slackware. Just remove the following line from the speech.h file: #define USE_PORTAUDIO And remove the -lportaudio from the Makefile.