festival 1.96~beta-9ubuntu1 (i386 binary) in ubuntu karmic

 Festival offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an
 environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It
 includes a Scheme-based command interpreter.
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 Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone
 speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable
 speech from text.