Sorry for the late post. In regards to speech impediments, regional accents and general usefulness for the handicapped, you guys should check out VoiceAttack (http://www.voiceattack.com). It works with Windows' speech recognition engine (which means it needs to be trained to your voice - which makes it good for those that have certain speech impediments). What it does, basically, is execute macros based on specific phrases that you input. It is set up mostly for gamers (keyboard input), but, you can launch/kill programs and play .WAVs and text to speech, etc. Thought it might be worth mentioning. - Gary