I'm running FreeTTS too ... testing all speech stuff I can find. It uses Flite. The added capability is that it implements the JSAPI (java speech API) for synthesis. The developers tell me that likely there will also be an implementation of JSAPI for recognition using Sphinx some time in the future. FreeTTS is useful if you want TTS in java programs, but like I said it uses Flite, so it depends if you want Java APIs or not.\ -- Doug