On 26 Aug, Doug Sutherland <doug at proficio.ca> wrote: > I don't know if espeak requires JACK No, eSpeak doesn't use JACK. In fact, I (and eSpeak) don't know anything about JACK. eSpeak uses the portaudio library for playing sound. Perhaps your portaudio has been configured to use JACK? Mine doesn't here, and I don't have JACK installed/