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From: Owen Patrick Smith <ender3rd@WPI.EDU>
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Subject: RE: A Second Festival Module for Speakup
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Yes we have, FLite is one of the programs which we are planning on adding
support for in the near future.  The nature of the middleware program is
such that it should be easy to add support for more programs, to be chosen
at run-time however we thought it best to get it working for one and then
improve the capabilities later.  Don't worry FLite support is coming.

Owen

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> Hi Owen and all,
>
> Have you considered using Flite rather than Festival?  Flite is much
> smaller, much more responsive, and should be useable through the same
> interface.
>
> Saqib
>