Thanks for the suggestion. However, I know that TTS is already installed on my system. I'm pretty sure it ships standard with XP. In the control pannel, I can select "Speech", and preview the installed "LH Michael", "LH Michelle", and "Microsoft SAM" voices. Also, in Acrobat I can select View->Read Out Loud, and the page is spoken. So the TTS is there, I'm just not calling it right. Any idea how I can figure out the magic string?