Howard - I heartily agree with that final sentiment. It's amazing just how horrible some of those early hardware synthesizers really were. -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Kaufman Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:18 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: Drive and Street Etc. You can use text aloud, k1000, or one of the packages from premier programming solutions to create mp3 files using available sapi voices, then transfer them to the bookport. Read all the books you want with out hearing doubletalk at all. Personally I can't hear thep problem with doubletalk. Anybody else read books with an artic symphonic 210 speech card? Maybe with personal vert? Maybe with an echo? Trust me, compared to that, doubletalk is a surround sound audio system.