Thanks for the links, Little Dragon! Speakonia Kind of related - I've found this to be a good, free tool for creating synthesized voices using existing TTS engines. I've downloaded all the free versions of speech engines from MS, L&H & IBM, and it works with all of them. Very simple to use - just type in the text and click "Play". You select the voice from any speech engine installed on your system, and adjust sliders for pitch, speed and volume. Of course, they still all sound like robots. :-D I'd also be interested in hearing about any voice-morphing software that was worth the time to download. Most of the packages I checked out a few years back were horrendous resource-hogs that had the capabilities of toys. Plus, they were a bit spy-warish, as I recall. - Jimdoria ~@>@

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