In article <24593.159.87.119.181.1171380478.squirrel at webmail.commspeed.net>, <keithint38 at commspeed.net> wrote: > I have posted on this many times, but feel it is necessary to restate > the spisific problem I'm having with ESpeak under my AMD 64-bit > system, with Gentoo Linux, SMP enabled kernel. What version of eSpeak are you using? Does the problem still occur with version 1.20, available from: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/