OK, that's turned on. Now what? I'd like to speak "Good morning LadyBug (my computer's name:-))) And then the computer would speak back "Good morning Jim" Thanks in advance, --Jim Conrad __________________________________________ On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 01:51 PM, TheMacintoshLady wrote: > jc tapped out this message on 8/6/2003 11:19 AM > >> I'd like to say a phrase to my computer and then have the computer >> answer me. Is this possible and how do you set this up (I need pretty >> detailed info). I've played around with speech recognition and >> couldn't >> figure out how you would do this. > > You would need to enable Text to Speech in the Universal Access > control > panel in the System Prefs first, and then go from there. > >