I am quite surprised about the number of people that prefer the synthetic speech. I have long been in this camp, but I thought I was the rare exception. It is good to learn that I am not all alone with this prefereence, and this is good information to know as we continue product development on this and other tech products. >>> ncrabb@xxxxxxxxx Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:52:33 PM >>> Sarah said in an earlier message that she is part of a tiny minority who prefers synthetic speech to human narration. While that club is no doubt small and exclusive, I hope and trust there's room for me. Even though I'm doing these NLS conversions, I prefer a plain-text book like a Web braille title over the human narration any day. The choice of the DoubleTalk chip was an excellent choice as far as I'm concerned. I suspect, Sarah, that there are more of us out there than we might realize--more who enjoy synthetic speech over human narration, that is. I'm solidly in that group. Nolan