I posted a request on blitzcoder.com not too long ago about this issue. I still have an Amiga, and had written a game that implemented the narrator.device so that text could be spoken. I was hoping somebody "out there" had created an engine for speaking text (it doesn't have to be natural sounding, just understandable). I don't think that referring people to the MS agent app will work for those who, like me, have WIN98. The MS speech app only works under later MS Windows, as I understand it, and not WIN 98.