Jacob, How did you tell espeak to switch soundcards? AFAIK there is no device parameter on the command line. I'm having a problem with espeakup and pulseaudio. I've compiled portaudio with pulseaudio support. Espeak talks just fine, but espeakup doesn't work at all and produces pages of erros about 'invalid samplerate'. I think this may have something to do with how espeakup is interacting with the espeak library. Chris