Hey list, Curious if anyone has run into this issue. I'm getting silence when attempting to navigate by character in emacspeak using the linux-outloud speech server. This only occurs for specific characters and more frustratingly only reproduces when navigating in a specific direction. I'm guessing the bug lies somewhere within the server implementation when coupled with my sound hardware and based on the fact that I'm using VMWare Player. I suspect there's a buffer underrun occurring from reading the PCM interface documentation. But, I've not touched low-level audio libraries to any extent. I could fiddle with some of the hw param settings (buffer size/time, etc.), but it looks non-trivial since alsa has a complex n-dimensional configuration space which restricts the available setting based on hardware. Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind