How to get Festival text to speech working?

[Ed Greshko]

Joseph Loo wrote:

> You need to be careful when evaluating how well speech sounds like. It turns out
> the voice synthesizer is highly dependent on voice. For example the default
> festival voice is not bad, but adding a few of the artic voices in, the speech
> is not as good.

FWIW....  http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/reviews_of_speech_synths.html