Was googling around for some info on a chip to drive with a pic to get voice synthesis, and found this. Seems relatively new and powerful, around $25 US retail qty 1. I am NOT connected with them or any of their distributors, just thought it might be interesting to others. "The SpeakJet is a completely self contained, single chip voice and complex sound synthesizer. It uses a mathematical sound algorithm to control an internal five channel sound synthesizer to generate on-the-fly, unlimited vocabulary speech synthesis and complex sound generation. SpeakJet is NOT a sound recorder, it generates sounds, in real-time, and in a single 18-pin DIP package." http://www.speakjet.com/ http://www.hvwtech.com/pages/products_view.asp?ProductID=505 http://www.google.ca/search?q=speakjet&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= Eric Pierce www.va3ep.net --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.593 / Virus Database: 376 - Release Date: 2/20/2004 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads