the only problems i see i text puppet is that it misses some phonemes. the list of supported phonemes in MIMIC is greater. I wish that mimic had more variations for blinking: Barney Rubble, fast, sluggish, and medium. Also some control over grouping (how many blinks on average are grouped together) and frequency between groups of blinks. If you want auto computer read robot talk just do a Google search on text readers. There are several in any variety of voices. Record the voice from your text file then dump the .wav into MIMIC. IMHO any attempt to do emotions is a waste of time unless you also include the use of cameras so that you have a face station scenario. Face Station lovers should check the price though. Face Station is 20X the price of MIMIC. For 16 dollars you can do nearly the same thing with the facial expression libraries for Vicky and Michael from DAZ. just my 2 cents. jamball