From Control Panel click on the Speech icon, then the Text-to-Speech tab to see what TTS engines and voices have been installed on your system.

You will get the best results from specialist TTS software from various third party suppliers. These are available in different accents, languages, and special vocabularies, e.g. for medical or legal terminology. We are developing ways to cater for automotive technical terms also.)

More details about adding and using valuable speech extensions to how computers are used can be found at the latest addition to the autocluster.com network - www.digitaldrivetime.com

At www.digitaldrivetime.com you can access continually updated information about sports, religions, entertainment, business, trade, air, sea and ground transport, and a wealth of other topics. There are special sections at www.digitaldrivetime.com and other www.autocluster.com sites covering countries, regions, automotive brands, etc.

All this information can quickly and easily be converted to speech, providing you with knowledge and entertainment wherever you are - driving, flying (or waiting at airports or in traffic jams!), exercising, gardening, fishing, sitting on the beach, etc., etc.

The autocluster.com Web sites enable you to take advantage of the Internet anywhere you may be, and even while you are on the move. Using text-to-speech technology (which may already be installed on your computer) you add another dimension to time that might otherwise be wasted.

When away from your computer you can also listen to your emails, or to Powerpoint and other forms of business presentations that enable you to acquire knowledge about the motor business and achieve valuable competitive advantages.

The autocluster.com Web sites are hosted on fast and secure servers in Africa and Germany, so they provide rapid access through both local and global Internet portals wherever you may be and whether you use a fast broadband or a slow dial-up (even a cell phone) connection.

The autocluster services include downloadable “Talking eBooks” that, like the Web pages, are formatted for easy listening. Or create your own audio books from any existing computerized texts - even directly from .pdf files or Word documents.

Talking ebooks complement the combination of archival content and fast-breaking news available through the autocluster.com services.

In a few minutes you can assemble enough information and entertainment as speech that will turn even the longest journey into a more pleasant and far more useful experience.

The autocluster sites use autobots to monitor prime Web intelligence sources round-the-clock, so that every time you visit your favourite pages, the content has changed to reflect the latest information available on automotive and other topics of specific interest to you.

It would be impossible to have a conventional radio service with human announcers and news readers narrating this dynamic content in real time. Anyway, the sound files created would be massive - too big to download. Streaming audio and other conventional Internet radio services also generate big files that require fast broadband connections. And no conventional audio service can be customised to your own personal information and entertainment needs.

So the only practical way to get round spending hours staring at the computer screen to access all the knowledge that you want is to collect it as plain text. Then, using your own computer's processing power, you convert the texts to speech to take with you wherever you go.

We make this text-to-speech conversion easy at www.digitaldrivetime.com , www.autocluster.com , www.autocluster.co.za , and the other autocluster Web sites. Our Web page formats separate the graphics from the text and have other features to ease copying the text that you want to hear to the Windows Clipboard or directly into text-to-speech software. You can automate easily how your own computer very quickly converts this information that you chose into recorded speech.

Within seconds you have MP3 or Wav audio speech files that can be transferred to CDs or to any portable audio device.

The listening experience using synthesized voices has been transformed in recent years. You can chose naturally sounding male and female voices with American and UK English accents, or select from a wide range of other accents and languages.

Text-to-speech software may already be incorporated in word processing and other software installed on your computer. Other programs and a large selection of voices can be downloaded free, or for very low cost.

Even the most sophisticated text-to-speech software and special voices costs very little. You can set up a really advanced system that meets your individual needs for well under $100, even when using the latest version of such impressive programs as TextAloud.