Hi. I am using the git as of October 26 which is supposed to be the latest and at times, I cannot shut up the speakout synth. I use emacs a lot and after pressing e during a vm session (which is edit the message), it will go on for quite a bit before I can finally shut it up -- maybe 20 or 30 seconds where hitting the enter key on the keypad does nothing. I am using kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r4 and I have speakup and the spkout module built in. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com