Hi, that's great news. Hopefully, the SourceForge project will also provide a plugin for OpenOffice writer. My understanding, is that if you're using commercial text to speech voices, like realspeak, then you need a special licence if you distribute audio created using this voice, and this licence can be expensive. I wonder if the project will deal with this issue. a very happy, David Bailes. original message: From another list on which I am subscribed... Apologies for cross posting Microsoft and open-source site SourceForge plan to offer a free plug-in early next year that will convert Office 2007 files to the Daisy format, which translates text to speech. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9815836-7.html?tag=nefd.blgs All the best Barry G ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq