Michael (and everyone else): Version 1.8 handles audio much differently than any other version of iListen. It must in order to work under Leopard. Overcompensation due to reading too many training stories has always been a potential problem with iListen. It's *possible* that the audio changes in 1.8 increase the likelihood of this happening. Whenever you create a new voice profile I *strongly* urge you to follow the guidelines from this article in our knowledge base: TIP: Creating a Good Voice Profile <http://www.macspeech.com/support/index.php?action=kb&article=112> -- Technical Support Manager MacSpeech, Inc. Check out our online Helpdesk at: <http://www.macspeech.com/support> On Dec 1, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Dr. Michael A. Riccioli wrote: > The update procedure went very well on my 24-inch iMac (Oct2007) + > Leopard. > I read all the pages and created a new Voice file but the overall > result is not as good as when I was using Version 1.68