In article <20070130172634.GA31667 at taylor.homelinux.net>, > I have noticed that whenever eSpeak sees the words "DO NOT" it always > seems to pronounce it "D O". I thought it may have been a strange > problem with version 1.15, which is the one included in Ubuntu, but > 1.19 does the same thing. Has anyone else noticed this? Not until you mentioned it :-) I've fixed it now, for the next version. > Is there a fix or work-around available for this at this time? There's a work-around if you want to edit the dictsource/en_list file and re-compile the dictionary data by doing: espeak --compile=en In en_list, find the line which starts with: (do not) i.e. "do not" in brackets, and delete it.