The recent announcement from IBM of a commercial implementation of viavoice raises an interesting opportunity: the ability to use a well tested and (imho) high-quality TTS that's likely to remain current for a while. The cost is near zero provided we can get enough users together and someone is prepared to manage the mechanics of the deal. I *think* the time spent for me to do this would be less than changing to another TTS so I'm prepared to volunteer for that part. That raises the other question, how many people would be interested? My proposal would be that we form a partnership in the most lightweight possible way, we then commit to divide the cost of the 200 licenses among ourselves and then try to recover some of the extra expense by selling the (probably large) number we don't need. Realistically I don't think we would recover much of the cost but one never knows. So the question should be "what's it worth for me?" Personally I'd spend $100 if it was the multilingual version and $50 if it was English-only. If people are interested in this, get back to me privately (peter.rayner@xxxxxxxx) and I'll count up possible subscribers. Let me know the maximum cost you would be willing to bear too so I can know whether your interest is usable. If there's enough people I'll look at the practicalities of 1) negotiating with the distributor 2) checking out any likely risks 3) seeing how we can distribute the proceeds of any onselling. cheers Peter _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list