diff --git a/src/switch_ivr_play_say.c b/src/switch_ivr_play_say.c
index b4178e9e85..a29f4c6f22 100644
--- a/src/switch_ivr_play_say.c
+++ b/src/switch_ivr_play_say.c
@@ -2181,6 +2181,8 @@ SWITCH_DECLARE(switch_status_t) switch_ivr_speak_text_handle(switch_core_session
 		}
 	}
 
+	switch_channel_audio_sync(channel);
+
 	ilen = len;
 	for (;;) {
 		switch_event_t *event;
@@ -2346,7 +2348,6 @@ SWITCH_DECLARE(switch_status_t) switch_ivr_speak_text_handle(switch_core_session
 				}
 			}
 		}
-
 	}
 
  done:
@@ -2377,8 +2378,12 @@ SWITCH_DECLARE(void) switch_ivr_clear_speech_cache(switch_core_session_t *sessio
 		if (cache_obj->timer.interval) {
 			switch_core_timer_destroy(&cache_obj->timer);
 		}
-		switch_core_speech_close(&cache_obj->sh, &flags);
-		switch_core_codec_destroy(&cache_obj->codec);
+		if (&cache_obj->sh && cache_obj->sh.speech_interface) {
+			switch_core_speech_close(&cache_obj->sh, &flags);
+		}
+		if (&cache_obj->codec) {
+			switch_core_codec_destroy(&cache_obj->codec);
+		}
 		switch_channel_set_private(channel, SWITCH_CACHE_SPEECH_HANDLES_OBJ_NAME, NULL);
 	}
 }
@@ -2412,7 +2417,7 @@ SWITCH_DECLARE(switch_status_t) switch_ivr_speak_text(switch_core_session_t *ses
 	timer = &ltimer;
 
 	if ((var = switch_channel_get_variable(channel, SWITCH_CACHE_SPEECH_HANDLES_VARIABLE)) && switch_true(var)) {
-		if ((cache_obj = switch_channel_get_private(channel, SWITCH_CACHE_SPEECH_HANDLES_OBJ_NAME))) {
+		if ((cache_obj = (cached_speech_handle_t *) switch_channel_get_private(channel, SWITCH_CACHE_SPEECH_HANDLES_OBJ_NAME))) {
 			need_create = 0;
 			if (!strcasecmp(cache_obj->tts_name, tts_name)) {
 				need_alloc = 0;
@@ -2422,7 +2427,7 @@ SWITCH_DECLARE(switch_status_t) switch_ivr_speak_text(switch_core_session_t *ses
 		}
 
 		if (!cache_obj) {
-			cache_obj = switch_core_session_alloc(session, sizeof(*cache_obj));
+			cache_obj = (cached_speech_handle_t *) switch_core_session_alloc(session, sizeof(*cache_obj));
 		}
 		if (need_alloc) {
 			switch_copy_string(cache_obj->tts_name, tts_name, sizeof(cache_obj->tts_name));