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Check out http://www.labs.bt.com/innovate/speech/laureate/index.htm It's BT Lab's text to speech system, it's pretty good. Hopefully it's not behind any firewalls. if it is let me know. BT's pretty good at helping charity type activities, so I hope you'll get some success. Cheers On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, John Carmody wrote: ->Hello, ->By way of intoduction, my interest is on behalf of a client that ->handed me her brand new 760ED and requested that I "make some sense ->of it all" so she could use it to type and hear a nice female voice ->do some talking on her behalf. I've thrashed around the Internet and ->found some bits and pieces, but so far, just that. The lady has ALS ->and is gradually loosing her ability to talk. Is there anyone out ->there that can point me to a combination software solution; i.e., one ->that allows word lookup typing input, then a good software speech ->engine that will not sound mechanical. This 760ED has a Pentium ->133MHz chip, IBM's Mwave Audio solution, CD-rom and all the other ->goodies anyone could ask for all built into a 7 pound cigar box. ->Really something! Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -------- The views expressed here may or may not be my own. WWW - doesn't that stand for "Wait a Week Word" ? Dave Pratt (tel: +44 1473 643840 ) djp@futures.bt.co.uk