Lorenzo: > Where can I get Viavoice now? This is only the recognition engine, but try this page: http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/speechrec.html#vvgeneral Try this link from that page: https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/viavoice/vvlinux-r?S_PKG=dl This is the dictation (recognition) runtime kit. I just tried downloading it from there. It is almost 80MB. Unfortunately I don't see the TTS (text to speech) synthesizer on their web site. It's really a shame because I like the way it sounds. The TTS runtime distribution file (rpm) is only 1258k and the and the sdk is 528k. Write me offline. -- Doug