I have been unable to get viavoice to do anything -- I installed (using alien) viavoice_tts_rtk_5.tar and viavoice_tts_sdk_5.tar, but when I went into the programs under the samples directory, the cmdlinespeak compiled, but complained loudly that it couldn't create an esi handle and seemed to be looking for esi.ini (on Linux?). Also, the filespeak program wouldn't even compile -- it was complaining about some c++ errors. Has anyone figured out how to get this to work -- I am interested in it for possibly emacspeak and also for gnopernicus access. -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com