hi folks. I do not know if this as been nemtioned. been using a program Balabolka converts text into speach, works very well with System Access, and the program is free. this is what the site says about it. http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of VBScript. Download Balabolka Size: 2975 KB Version: 1.30.0.443 Licence: Freeware Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 Language: English, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian Portable Version: best. Barrie. Barrie Moxon Email- s.moxon@xxxxxxx