I used freeTTS before, made a oil heater talk in a microsite in '06, lol http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php freeTTS coupled with AIML makes for a pretty cool "ODDCASTy" kind of experience. http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html Also, you can go from text to images using GD and ImageMagick. http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php All are open source and pretty easy to set up. Paul --= Too much e-mail? Manage your subscription at at http://webproducers.org/?page_id=9 Web Producers Job Board http://jobs.webproducers.org Join us on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3877&trk=hb_side_g Messages are archived in our publicly accessible web archive. Trim your posts and delete personal information if you do not want them in the public web archive.