Hello, William Hubs the one in charge of speakup/espeakup in the Gentoo-Accessibility team for Gentoo Linux is the maintainer and creater of Espeakup. William may be able to post something back to this thread, and fix this since you explained with Espeakup is doing. Espeakup will be effected on all distributions probably, and I'm sure if anyone can fix the problem William could if he looked into it. hopefully William could check into it. I'll CC a copy of this message to him just in case he doesn't get this right away. William: perhaps you would know more about this SMP truncation whatever bug? I'm not on a Linux box at the moment so can't try to produce it here. Sorry for the second message, just doing my part to insure you get it. :) God Bless, and I hope this helps. -- Regards, --Keith Website: http://www.keithnet.us Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37 at hotmail.com Yahoo/AIM/Twitter: keithint1234 Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1