(resending, original mail was eaten during list outage) I emailed McIlroy and asked him about this, he said the article was available publicly at either of the two big Bell tech centers back in the 1990s, but both are defunct now. However, he dug up a copy of the article and scanned it (including the errata for it) and posted it on his site: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/ (actual file link: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/speak.tar ) I'm still trying in vain to find the source code to or even a binary of his unix 'speak' command, which existed between unix v3 and v6. Only the man pages seem to have survived, as far as I can tell. John A. Wasser at DEC wrote a later semi-replacement command based on the NRL algorithm, and that one I've found. Later, in 1990 or thereabouts, John Bazik hacked 'libspeak', a library of prerecorded phonemes, onto Wasser's program. Even later, (1992), 'rsynth' was created, building on Bazik's work but replacing the prerecorded phonemes with a modified version of Dennis Klatt's old klsyn backend. -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu(@t)hotmail(d0t)com jzg22(@t)drexel(d0t)edu