diff --git a/pico/AndroidManifest.xml b/pico/AndroidManifest.xml
index 33f838d..fcf6980 100755
--- a/pico/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/pico/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -70,5 +70,8 @@
                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.spa" />
             </intent-filter>
         </activity>
+
+        <provider android:name=".providers.SettingsProvider"
+            android:authorities="com.svox.pico.providers.SettingsProvider"  />
     </application>
 </manifest>
diff --git a/pico/src/com/svox/pico/providers/SettingsProvider.java b/pico/src/com/svox/pico/providers/SettingsProvider.java
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..699f9ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pico/src/com/svox/pico/providers/SettingsProvider.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.svox.pico.providers;
+
+import android.content.ContentProvider;
+import android.content.ContentValues;
+import android.database.Cursor;
+import android.database.MatrixCursor;
+import android.net.Uri;
+import android.os.Environment;
+
+/*
+ * This content provider enables the TtsService to get a String of configuration
+ * data from the plugin engine and pass it back to that engine's .so file in the
+ * native layer.
+ *
+ * In this particular case, the only configuration information being passed is
+ * the location of the data files for the Pico engine which live under
+ *     /<external storage>/svox/
+ *
+ */
+
+public class SettingsProvider extends ContentProvider {
+    private class SettingsCursor extends MatrixCursor {
+        private String settings;
+
+        public SettingsCursor(String[] columnNames) {
+            super(columnNames);
+        }
+
+        public void putSettings(String settings){
+            this.settings = settings;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int getCount(){
+            return 1;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String getString(int column){
+            return settings;
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    @Override
+    public int delete(Uri uri, String selection, String[] selectionArgs) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getType(Uri uri) {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Uri insert(Uri uri, ContentValues values) {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean onCreate() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Cursor query(Uri uri, String[] projection, String selection, String[] selectionArgs,
+            String sortOrder) {
+        String[] dummyColumns = {"", ""};
+        SettingsCursor cursor = new SettingsCursor(dummyColumns);
+        cursor.putSettings(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/svox/");
+        return cursor;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int update(Uri uri, ContentValues values, String selection, String[] selectionArgs) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+}