Hello, >From the Apple Developer lists today........ Snippet 1 In MacOS X for Java Geeks, the author uses com.apple.speech.synthesis.Synthesizer; , that is located in JavaSpeechFramework.jar Where can I download this file? Snippet 2 JavaSpeechFramework.jar http://arena.globalse.org/svn/trunk/src/lib/javaSpeechFramework.jar John F. Richardson