We have been creating a grou p of tours in US English plus 6 foreign languages...all audio for bus tours of the Kennedy Space Prt. We found that each language has its own natural length to say things, and made apprpriate reductions in the master script to keep the tours on schedule. Japanese has twice US English, hence the master script gets 50% reduction before translation, etc. Charlie Morrow Charles Morrow Associates, Inc. 212-595-8300 email: [log in to unmask]