-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I highly recommend eSpeak. It's really responsive and sounds better than any other free speech synthesizer that is currently available if you can understand a British accent. <smile> Get it from http://espeak.sourceforge.net or if you run Debian Unstable or Ubuntu with Universe activated you can apt-get install it. If you can apt-get install it, you don't have to really do much to set it up other than configuring speech-dispatcher to use it. For the most part, that's just a matter of uncommenting espeak-generic in the list of modules in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and making it the default module. Let me know if you need any more help. HTH, Lorenzo - -- I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF47b7G9IpekrhBfIRAsA1AJ96aeEggojZBYIzSJ5hMNmluT/3pwCfcif8 zqj9yrZL8nwDB2ajr4oR3dY= =jid7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----