PSL wishes to thank the following contributors and partners: Animated Speech Corporation National Institute of Health Grant No: PHS R01 DC00236 National Science Foundation Grant Nos: CDA-9726363 , BCS-9905176 and IIS-0086107 Intel Microsoft Lucent AT&T NeoSpeech Cyberware Panasonic - Speech Technology Laboratory Tucker-Maxon Oral School UCSD Machine Perception Laboratory Interactive Systems Laboratory at CMU ICP at INPG Grenoble