In the majority of studies to date, evaluation of synthetic speech has been focussed on segmental intelligibility. However, as the development of text-to-speech systems progresses and real-life applications are getting more common, the need for evaluation at higher levels of linguistic organization becomes increasingly relevant. In the present paper two studies are reported evaluating text-to-speech conversion for Dutch at the level of the paragraph. The first study determined comprehensibility for visually impaired and sighted subjects. The second study examined acceptability of voice-and-speech aspects of synthetic output as a function of experience.