all right, I find that festival might just be the way out. Please provide me information particularly about the voices that sound good with festival and where I can download them. if the voices are good enough, I think we can make efords to make things work faster on embedded devices as well. Krishnakant. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list