I was out browsing around and found this class which I think is very interesting. In its current state it gives out a sam like speech and allows you to change the media files that goes with it so if your really interested you could probably record your own phonemes and see if you could make your own voice a speech synth. This of course is only a really simple speech talker class but for those interested in tts its kind of cool. Here is the web link. I got it to work pretty easily in Windows. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2001/jw-0817-javatalk.html Ken