We have been using the preliminary version of the Esprit/SAM test procedure for synthetic speech to evaluate an experimental version of the multilingual text-to-speech system under development at our department. The proposed segmental test battery includes: a) hearing tests of the subjects, b) the familiarisation to the special type of speech synthesizer by an introductory paragraph, c) lists of CV, VC and VCV stimuli according to the phonotactic structure of the individual language. Tests on natural speech have also been performed forming a baseline for the synthesis evaluation and at the same time indicating the subjects' ability to give unambiguous orthographic response to nonsense words. We will also present data on the intelligibility of monosyllabic words drawn from the most frequent 10 000 words in Swedish.