Linux speech w/o special hardware

[Jack Heim <jheim facstaff wisc edu>]

Has anyone downloaded IBM's Viavoice Outload lately? I downloaded it last 
summer but now I can't find it on their web site. I'm wondering if it might 
have been withdrawn.

So then I started poking around on the University of Wisconsin's Trace 
Center web site. It mentions something called Festival from the University 
of Edinburgh. I was wondering if anyone had gotten that working on standard 
hardware, a PC with a sound card.