Hi ferreira; I checed out the pVoice and it's a full fledged picture based application for "Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)".
I'm on the outlook for a very simple "say" wrapper module for speaking aloud simple text strings, so that would be overkill.
best regards/ allan
???? http://search.cpan.org/~jouke/ Speech-Synthesis-0.03 A generic interface for different Text To Speech Engines
Win32-MSAgent-0.07 Interface module for the Microsoft Agent
Win32-SAPI4-0.08 Perl interface to the Microsoft Speech API 4.0
Win32-SAPI5-0.05 Perl interface to the Microsoft Speech API 5.1 http://opensource.pvoice.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/