Text to speech apps?

hi all,
are there any universal text to speech apps that have more voices than the mac?

Two, but they are pretty expensive:
1. Cepstral Voices 4.2.0
2. Infovox iVox - 1.1.
Or you can wait until Leopard is released which is supposed to have new, more natural sounding voices included according to Apple.

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<http://www.apple.com/feedback>
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I've noticed more than few posts about this since Captivate 4
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Are you by chance using Windows Vista 64 bit? Seems most that
have reported this issue have been using that version.
Please report it to Adobe as a bug.
Click
here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
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How do I make a tts text-to-speech keyboard shortcut
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when you right-click selected text in Safari, TextEdit and other native apps
*Speech > Start Speaking*
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I can get this far:
*System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts >*
I have low-vision and need this on as many as possible or all text running on my computer.
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