Hmm, sounded like music playing out of a Pringles can. Not familiar with how espeak sounds, but I started by listening to an Echo II, got through college listening to a ProVert speech synth, then went to a DecExpress on one machine and a MiniTransport on another. I actually preferred the MiniTransport due to the responsiveness. I use Eloquence now, and it sounds, to me, much like the other three, but when you listen to a synth for 10 hours a day, they all start to sound human to you. Although, I would never read a book using synthetic speech. Just kills it for me. I am no speed typist, but I use echo words not characters, and I have things set to not interrupt words. So typing responsiveness has never been a real issue for me. I'm a huge skeptic, so don't fully believe the floppy drive music thing. Oh, btw, did I mention that my Pi showed up in the mail last week? I was quite surprised as I wasn't expecting it until April or May. Tiny little thing. I've been on call for work so haven't had a chance to do anything more than open the package and look at it. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Senior Oracle Database Administrator Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: dr25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: (412) 268-9081 =========================================================== The raspberry-vi mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/raspberry-vi Administrative contact: <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----------------------------------------------------------- Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi logo are trademarks of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This list is not affiliated to the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the views and attitudes expressed by the subscribers to this list do not reflect those of the Foundation. Mike Ray, list creator, January 2013