Hi Keith, On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:27:58AM -0700, keithint38 at commspeed.net wrote: > Hello list, > I have managed to make ESpeak crash eaven when setting Speech-dispatcher > and Speechd-up to nice -20! The important thing here is to have speech-dispatcher more aggressive than speechd-up. I find it works pretty well to have speechd-up set to plus five, and speech-dispatcher to minus 5. Not sure that will help your problem, but somehow setting them both to -20 does not sound like a good idea. Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (18% of Full) But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh