In article <000001c7541c$ef68aaa0$9160d3cb at yourtpj8jvyu9p>, David Harvey <david at d-w-harvey.com> wrote: > The error is: > Espeakedit Error > Failed to load phoneme data, > needs espeak-data/phontab,phondata,phonindex That's from the espeakedit program. You must first install espeak. That's the espeak-1.20-win.zip download. This installs the eSpeak SAPI5 speech engine, and puts the data files in C:\Program Files\eSpeak\espeak-data. eSpeak voices should now appear in the SAPI5 voices list in programs such as screen readers (NVDA, JAWS, Window-Eyes) and other programs such as the simple TTSApp which is installed in C:\Program Files\eSpeak as part of the espeak installation. You only need the espeakedit program (that's the espeakedit-1.20-win.zip download) if you want to edit the data (eg. the pronunciation rules). It expects data files to already be in C:\Program Files\eSpeak.