I am sorry if some thought this off subject but it is Office and Office does a pretty good job of recognizing speech. Dian can you share with me the software that does text to a MP3 maybe I can ask around them some where and see if it could be done the other way. I also have had very good luck with speech to text through a microphone (a good Mike) But it would really make things much simpler if I could do just Voice from a file to text! Thanks All Gene The only built-in freebee way would be to setup the Voice recording device in Word...then read it into a document for her. I have an inexpensive piece of software that will take any document, read it and save it to an MP3 file...there might be a similar device out there that does the reverse? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003 ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************