I was attributing my problems in lip syncing Haptek characters with natural Voices to some AT&T issue, but it seems to go deeper that that. In trying to access the voices from the windows xp control panel Speech icon, I find I get error messages there as well. Somewhere along the line of adding voices, people putty, ultra hal, and other programs (I suspect) I have created sapi 5 conflicts. I am working with a mirosoft tech to fix this, and she seems to be making some headway. Was just curious if anyone else here has had sapi 5 problems, and if they did, how were they fixed? I am running windows xp home, athlon 1.8, nvidia 4400 ti, soundblaster, 512 ram.