diff --git a/src/Sound/voice.cxx b/src/Sound/voice.cxx
index 18cd20d..1c39470 100644
--- a/src/Sound/voice.cxx
+++ b/src/Sound/voice.cxx
@@ -200,8 +200,6 @@ FGFestivalVoice::~FGFestivalVoice()
 void FGVoiceMgr::FGVoice::pushMessage( const string & m)
 {
 
-	 int nwLen = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, m.c_str(), -1, NULL, 0);
-
      SG_LOG(SG_SOUND, SG_INFO, "FGVoice::pushMessage " << m.c_str()  );
 
 	_msg.push(m);