The "robot" voice is configurable via your voice settings on you computer and can be changed to sound differently or speak as fast or slow as you like. If you read anything about the widget you'd know that the speaking is not just an "unnecessary feature" to everyone and was created with a single purpose in mind. It can come in useful if you're a day trader who needs to step away from their computer and happens to also have a set of wireless headphones to hear how you…r positions are doing.

So IGS, if you have a FREE piece of software that doesn't do everything you need then how bout you get something more than a widget, like a trading platform and maybe some glasses to help your reading abilities, or pay someone to create exactly what you need.

Oh yeah, you can disable the voice with a single mouse click if it isn't something you want. More

Anyway, i like it ,it is free,LOLl

3Stars,i reckon it is not too bad

This is absolutely terrible...

1) The voice is a robot that is very hard to understand. In addition, the robot speaks at a very slow pace... it will take the robot 15 minutes to recite something that you can read in 5 seconds
2) Downloading and setting this widget up may freeze your computer
3) Totally unnecessary... why would anyone need this?

Why can't they just create a market watch with the following features:

1) Labels to replace symbols
2) Percentage gains (in addition or in place o…f point gains)
3) The ability to organize your investments by economic sector
4) Have stocks, options, futures, and currency all in the same widget
5) Have a calender for the release of important economic indicators, IPOs, etc.
6) Real time quotes

Is that too hard to ask?! NO, but they can make a robot recite quotes... ABSURD! More

See the newest version here: http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/spoken-quotes-1