In article <45C9A862.2050305 at proficio.ca>, Doug Sutherland <doug at proficio.ca> wrote: > I want to keep the processor free of using > many cycles for speech synth, this is not a PC and > it will operate at 180Mhz top speed. That may not be a problem. I run eSpeak here on a 200MHz ARM processor and I measured that it took 51 sec to process some text to generate 6m 3s of speech output. That's about 14% of the processor. Anyway, it's something consider.