curious

[Jason]

that could be any number of things, what's your processor speed, physical 
RAM, and kernel version number?

> I've noticed that when I play mp3s and read text in another window it
> tends to make the mp3 sound distort, does anyone know what could be
> causing this? because if I disable speakup and let it continu with
> incomming text it  doesn't distort the sound. I only get the distortion
> with speakup running, any ideas?