Mac OS X has text-to-speech built into the interface. So there must be a way to access that from the command line as well - in fact the first thing I tried worked:
os.system('say hello') says 'hello'. Is there something similar in Windows and/or Linux? (If it's there in Linux presumably it only works if there happens to be a speech engine available...) David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list