Hi List The tutor of the online course I am doing in Sports Journalism has sent me the request pasted below. Does anyone have any suggestions I could pass onto him please? The info he is looking for is below my signature. Many thanks for any help. Jackie I wondered if I could pick your brains? We are developing online shorthand training for journalists, and I have been recording dictation passages as voice files, which we send as email attachments. This works quite well. But I wondered - do you know any good sites where there are audios or podcasts etc containing passages of people speaking? It doesn't really matter what the passages are about, or how long - though if you new any shorthand dictation sites this would be wonderful! We've searched the web high and low, with limited results ofher nthan BBC news-type podcasts - but it occured to me that there might be facilities for the blind that we may not have heard of? Or - are there any good, free screen readers available to download - so that we could send people text, which could be read to them - though preferably the students would be able to select the speed at so-many words per minute.