I too would be interested to hear your progress James. You posit a cogent argument, but perhaps you are w to dumb to be able to give us updates? I only tried TotalJock twice, with no apparent results, but if you prove it can work, I'll be right on it too. TotalJock4 is missing the dumbing down aspec...

I agree on the AT&T voices. The other relatively inexpensive voices are Cepstral voices. I use Dave on my computer and the are available for many platforms. cepstral.com