I think that part of the slowness is given by the natural speech rate used. I have both Eloquenceand Natural voices installed. I use Natural voices for reading literature but prefer Eloquence (at a much higher speech rate for normal screen reading. My system is P4 2.6Ghz and 1Gb ram. Ciao, Ron. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of arnaud Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:41 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: JFW v5 and natural voices v1.4 there are no issue but natural voices are very slow to respond to command. -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- [This E-mail was scanned for spam and viruses by NextGen.net.] --- [This E-mail was scanned for spam and viruses by NextGen.net.] -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx