I've just discovered that the Speech applet has problems with any of the f-ligature characters. I couldn't make out quite what it was pronouncing as it was "talking" quite quickly, but it certainly wasn't "fi", fl", "ff" and so on. More of a slight annoyance than a real problem, though. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne \ / __ __ \ England. and / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk family / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \______________ pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx