Espeak strangness

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <20061004120959.GA14747 at taylor.homelinux.net>,
   Lorenzo Taylor <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net> wrote:

> I am experiencing the same problem using espeak 1.16 and portaudio 19
> on Debian.  Also, if the first line of text starts with a punctuation
> by itself, I get immediately returned to the command prompt and
> nothing is spoken.

This is a puzzle, and Garrett reported it occurs with eSpeak 1.14 as
well as 1.16. 

I can't get this effect here, although I'm using portaudio 18 rather
than 19.

Does the problem only happen in the interactive mode where you start by
typing
  speak
followed immediately by Return ?