Hi, This is just a bit of fun. I've setup a remind function that calls festival to say the reminder. Here it is FSET _sayreminders(subj) "echo " + subj + " | festival --tts" Cheers DC -- David Creelman GPG: 11CC 0D54 D37A 4B9C 5C65 AB63 5B18 7F99 7D77 9CA5