Hi, Though in the past I've seen this behavior with Jaws 5.0 and msn messenger versions 5 and 6 I'd never seen it in windows messenger 4.7 or 5. However, here it manifests. After a few sends back and forth in conversation window suddenly instead of speaking the in coming message automatically Jaws just says blank blank blank whether a message comes in or you use the ` key to read previous message. Nothing seems to rectify this problem nor can I pin down an event or cause for this to suddenly occur. By the way this has manifested after doing a merge settings and after a clean uninstall and reinstall Has anyone else encountered this issue as yet? Robin -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx