In article <20061004063046.GA14199 at garrettk17.ma.dl.cox.net>, Garrett Klein <garrettklein at comcast.net> wrote: > I have the following issue with Espeak 1.14 and Portaudio V19 on > Gentoo X86-64. > 1. I type speak. > 2. I type a line of text, and hit enter. This text is then > spoken... all good so far. > 3. I type another line of text and press enter. > 4. I am returned to my bash prompt. I've found the problem and fixed it. It happened only when playing the speech with portaudio v19. Here's the fixed version (espeak 1-16a): http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html