I'm writing an application in which various instructions issued to the user are intended to be output in natural speech. Instead of adding several dozens of *.wav files to my app, I was thinking of putting all instructions into a single *.wav file and then jump to the respective location in the file where each instruction begins. I know how to play *.wav files in VB, but how do I play a specific portion of a *.wav file. I would appreciate any help or suggestion about literature that deals with this problem. Sascha (Sascha W. Felix)