Hi, On Friday I commented that my new copy of espeak 1.44.05 was working normally, as indeed it was at the time. But I had not restarted my computer since updating to that version a couple of days earlier. On Saturday, a new kernel was available from the arch mirrors, and after obtaining it, I then rebooted. Guess what? My espeak is now broken too, misbehaving worse in some applications than in others, but definitely difficult to use. I'm switching to my doubletalk lt for the time being. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (89% of Full) My personal website: hallenbeck.ftml.net Software: edway.ftml.net, and Blog: edway.wordpress.com My Jabber ID: chuckh1 at jabber.org (beware the silent h!) -------- Some people claim that the Linux learning curve is steep, but at least you only have to climb it once.