RichCini

Here's the update. I received the ChannelVision units this week and set them up on a test basis. They are somewhat sensitive to the input volume from the PC (excessive distortion) but it's acceptable. They seem to have a sleep mode of some sort because there is a delay in hearing the audio when testing speech phrases. I haven't finished testing it, but I think I'll have to embed some sort of delay in the phrase so that I can hear the entire thing.

Regarding the whole-house wireless audio for alarms and notifications (rather than music), there was another thread (http://forum.universal-devices.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=8142&hilit=whole+house+audio) which discusses it a bit, but the item referenced is no longer available. I posted a possible solution in that thread by using a similar product from Channel Vision. If anyone else has better/more robust solutions, I'd like to hear. Thanks!

I'm building-out a similar kind of setup to that in this thread (http://forum.universal-devices.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=11204) using EventGhost and Microsoft Speech. The Rocketfish unit described above looks like it is discontinued, but I found a similar kind of thing at Smarthome from Channel Vision (http://www.smarthome.com/83617/Channel-Vision-WA-361-1-to-Many-Wireless-Audio-Receiver/p.aspx). The link is for the receiver -- the transmitter is the WA-321. It's a "one-to-many" audio transmitter/receiver with a range of about 300'. It doesn't have the retransmission/mesh capability of the Rocketfish, but for a smaller installation, it might be OK. I bought a transmitter and three receivers and I'll give it a try.

Gene -- Thanks for the tutorial on this. I have a question that hopefully you can answer. In your post, you say to install the SDK51MSM file but that doesn't include the actual SDK, but only "MSM" files inside language folders like "1033". Where do these go? I did install the regular SDK but there's no obvious place for them. On an unrelated note, how are you handling distributing the audio through your installation? I don't have whole-house wired audio but I do have a Sonos system. Other than that, I'd have to come up with some sort of wireless method to have the audio available on three floors (basement, main floor and 2nd floor). Any other ideas would be appreciated. Great work! Thanks for this.