Hi Chuck, Sorry for the delay in responding to your note but I unfortunately deleted it the other day. Now before i get into answering your question regarding speech and terminal services I should say that although I understand the concept I haven't had an opportunity to try a speech product under this environment and to the best of my knowledge there is only one speech product which currently will work under a terminal service with another one due early next year. In answer to your question, here is a general outline. the full speech product is installed on the server and then a profile is established for each client worksstation which connects to the server which defines the hardware device being used at the local workstation to reproduce the speech. so I suspect that as part of the terminal client which would be installed at the local workstation there would be some type of under lying client/module to handle the speech but this is only my best guess at this time. Allan