Here's the links for the text to speech sdks this one will take you to the msagent site where you need to scroll down to the speech engines and dl the L&H speech engine http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/agent/agentdl.asp this is the microsoft site for the SDK 4.0.. dl the sdk or you won't get the sample programs to make text to speech wavs http://www.microsoft.com/IIT/speech/speechdepot.htm Hope these help Ed