Thought this might be of interest to some of you. It is the Apple voiceover which now comes built into their computers. You will find links on this site that will enable you to listen to samples of, what I think, is very human sounding synthetic speech. And, like a human, it even breathes. Try to beat this for quality if you can at Freedom Scientific, Window eyes and System Access. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/