Folks, Here's a new one. I can't change the default TTS Engine under control panel/speech. I can preview the voices but when I hit apply it comes up with, "RUNDLL An exception occurred while trying to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl",Speech" OK " I downloaded and ran SAPI4's suite from, http://www.o2a.com/SpeechDownload.htm and it installed, "Microsoft Speech SDK 4.0 and engines Microsoft Voice, Microsoft Dictation, and the Microsoft Speech SDKOK " Convinced this would fix it.... It did not. Furthermore when I launch the Speech Applet I get, "Speech Properties The requested task cannot be carried out because the necessary engine could not be created. Please select a different engine and/or a different audio device. OK " I've SP3 on the machine but had these problems with SP2 as well. I was actually hoping there would be a Hot Fix in SP3 that would have fixed it. Any suggestions? Dj Paddy