[bopdude]

Originally Posted by erol

WinXP has some text to speech functions built in.

Have a look here.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

(personally few things annoy me more than my computer talking to me - lexmark printers - yuk)

Thanks to all for the tips \ links, I just got back from working away so sorry for the late response. Erol, it's not for my p.c. that I want it, just got myself a " smartphone " that I want to customise with different " messages " from different people, and different message types, mail, sms, mms, etc etc, thanks again to all