I finally got the text to voice of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 preferred to work. I had been using an old version of Microsoft Works as a text editor. When I changed to Microsoft Word. I could have it play back what I said and read what it had written as it was supposed to. Speech to text is very different from text-to-speech. With text-to-speech. There is no problem in guessing what word is meant. I have a huge 21 in. monitor and at times have a hard time making out fine print with the help of a magnifying glass. By having it read aloud I can catch mistakes and I would overlook otherwise. It did not work with e-mails or the Encyclopedia. Perhaps there are programs that will. I am working on a large spreadsheet , and can move around much faster than with the keyboard. I can say . Move down two and it is there, Move right twenty and it is there before I close my mouth. It is much faster than typing with the keyboard. In Microsoft XP Home Edition go to control panel; sounds speech and audio devices; speech; text-to-speech; preview voice. Then you can try the voice of Microsoft's Sam. Clock G2 uses the voice of Microsoft's Sam to announce the time and date each hour. I have not found anything in any of my Microsoft programs about how to get it to read text. I think that they should have such a program. There are probably other such programs and there have been such programs for years but I don't know where to find them. Merritt L. Perkins