I ran across an interesting site http://www.sitepal.com/ which will stream audio and speaking characters for any text you provide. I am wondering if any similar software packages are available for installation on one's own site. update: If I can find some really good text to speech software, this will do the job, as I can work with wav files. I tried these but they did not produce the quality I need: www.naturalreaders.com nextup.com readplease.com So to update my question... what is the best text to speech software available?