software speech for speakup

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

For me, a major factor in hardware speech is the cost.  It seems to me that
a killing could be made by making a hardware linux-based speech synth,
especially if it sounded real good.  Imagine festival in a box.  Seriously
though, most speech hardware has been around for awhile and it's not
getting any cheaper.   Software speech came along at a good time and stole
the market.  A good, cheap, hardware device would definitely find a place
IMHO.

Geoff.