50. A text-to-speech processing apparatus according to claim 49, further comprising access means for accessing remote text files, wherein said process steps include process steps to parse text in said remotely-located files and steps to store the parsed text.
49. A text-to-speech processing apparatus comprising: a processing unit including a computer for executing stored program process steps; command means by which an operator can issue commands; a memory for storing plural files including at least some files which contain text characters organized into words, and for storing process steps for execution by said processing unit; and a text-to-speech converter for converting text characters into speech styled in accordance with speech style commands; wherein said process steps include steps to select one of the files stored in said memory, to provide text characters from the selected file to said text-to-speech converter, and to alter how text characters are provided from the selected file to said text-to-speech converter in accordance with operator commands from said command means which are effectuated at interword text boundaries, whereby text characters in the selected file are converted to speech in an operator-controllable order.