----------------------------Original message---------------------------- If for nostalgia's sake we broaden the scope of the question to include the old Iron Curtain countries, unsynched & censored lips abound. Erich Honecker, for instance, had a very high and squeaky voice (GDR rumor had it that he slept in an oxygen tent at night and so had done something to his vocal chords). Whenever GDR television wanted to show him giving a speech (at least towards the end of his reign), the image of Honecker speaking would be accompanied by the low, calm, soothing voice of a newscaster reading/summarizing what Honecker was saying. As I remember the Voice would often be female, but presumably less jarringly "feminine" than Honecker's own voice.... Anne Nesbet UC Berkeley