Hi. I've notice that version 3 of the voices are responsive enough to use with speech-dispatcher, version 4 of the voices responds to slowly to be useful for screen reading. Kenny On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:00:13PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Another cool option is the Cepstral line of software synths. They ain't > free but each voice can be bought for $29.95 for Mac, Linux, or Windows. > I might experiment with getting one of them to work with Speech > Dispatcher. I would mainly use them for maybe things like DAISY book > publication and such. They are very high quality human sounding voices. > They probably chew up a good quantity of CPU though. Those high end > voices tend to do that.