These people offer what seems to be a capable and moderately well priced text to speech engine. Reasonably compact and low power consumption. Products include standalone board level products, chipsets, technology licences and in PC cards. Quality sounds acceptably good. While arguably not as good as DEC Talk it is more easily accessible for small scale use and cheaper. http://www.rcsys.com/ Website includes demonstrations files and good product descriptions, manuals and data sheets. I am extremely interested in good quality well priced text to speech solutions for disability applications. If anyone can point me to products of similar or better capability to this one I would be most grateful. Key factors include ability to generate understandable speech from unknown text, price, range of voices, size, power consumption. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics