Ok, Thank you all for your recommendations!
I was only expecting two or three replies, however, this must be a popular issue. Let me try to address all the points raised and maybe one of you could moderate a forum for this topic?

About recommended applications, I have already rejected the products from AUDIO4FUN. Their demo was not convincing, although their tech support group assures me that the full product is much better.

Cool Edit from Trillium is a product that I have tried in the past and will look at again. However, it is now owned by Adobe, which only proves its worth as a product.

Audacity is sponsored by SoundForge, a leader in audio software applications. Since it is free, it will be my next application to test. As the poster said, The price is right.

About my abliity to read for another character, well I will let you judge that for yourself. The vast majority of my work is, and will go, unpublished. What I do post, I expect your honest criticism. As one person told me. I have a face for radio, :).

About hiring online, local theatre, and television actors to read for me. Well I will let that go until I have an important commission. After watching my girlfriend go into a fit of giggles after trying to read an anime script, well it was difficult to tell her that she was not suitable. Actually, I didn't. I just stopped asking her to read.

If you have any links to groups who will do script reading, in English and Japanese, let me know.

Otherwise, all of you have been very helpful.

Goshinsetsu ni arigatoo! (Thank you for your kindness)
Arigatoo gozaimashita! (Thank you very much)

Message edited on: 09/17/2005 19:02