That is very interesting about espeak on ARM. The only software speech synth that was bearable to me was IBM TTS which was really eloquence branded IBM. Is it possible to generate a wav or mp3 of what it sounds like? Could you possibly send me an audio sample? I am deeply into hardware at the moment but I'm interested in knowing how that software synth sounds. -- Doug Jonathan Duddington wrote: 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.