Hi, Usually this happens when the system gets boggged down If you're running multiple applications, close anything that you don't need to run at the moment and see if speech smooths out a bit. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: jerry martin To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 4:11 AM Subject: JAWS stutters What would be a cause for JAWS hesitating during speech in any given program? Thanks. Jerry