here's an url that goes through the history of the speech synthesiser. http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~slemmett/dippa/chap2.html there's some wave files on there. and some of them are quite interesting. hth -- Shaun Oliver It's multiple choice time... What is FORTRAN? a: Between thre and fiv tran. b: What two computers engage in before they interface. c: Ridiculous.