diff --git a/wabbit_wappa/__init__.py b/wabbit_wappa/__init__.py
index f857a54..c932d82 100644
--- a/wabbit_wappa/__init__.py
+++ b/wabbit_wappa/__init__.py
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ def __init__(self, command=None, active_mode=False, dummy_mode=False, **kwargs):
             else:
                 # Run VW in shell with 'canonical mode processing' disabled
                 # See: http://pexpect.readthedocs.org/en/stable/api/pexpect.html#pexpect.spawn.send
-                self.vw_process = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash')
+                self.vw_process = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash', echo=False)
                 self.vw_process.sendline('stty -icanon')
                 self.vw_process.sendline(command)