Cetin,
Actually I made a mistake in my last post. It isn't the speaking that repeats, it
is the playing of the wave file that repeats. In this case the wave
file linked to beep. chr(7). And it only repeats if the BkSp key is pressed.
I would like to prevent that from happening.

This is what is getting repeated:

Set Bell to "c:\d\math\huki.wav"
?? Chr(7)

Here is the code:

PARAMETERS talkit
declare long ShellExecute in "shell32.dll" ;
	long hwnd, string lpszOp, ;
	string lpszFile, string lpszParams, ;
    string lpszDir, long nShowCmd
ShellExecute(0,'Open','c:\mp3\SomeSong.mp3','','',0)
*delay - song starts to play
Declare Sleep in win32API integer nMilli


	loSpeak = CREATEOBJECT("SAPI.SPVoice")
	IF mgender = 0 && try again
		Set Bell to "c:\d\math\piano.wav"
		?? Chr(7)
		Sleep(2000)

		loSpeak.Voice = loSpeak.GetVoices("gender=female").Item(0)
	endif
	IF mgender = 1
		Set Bell to "c:\d\math\huki.wav"
		?? Chr(7)
		Sleep(5500)
		loSpeak.Voice = loSpeak.GetVoices("gender=male").Item(0)
	endif
	loSpeak.SPEAK(talkit)
RETURN .t.