Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Adam Myrow]

Hi.  I know others have fiddled with the CVS snapshots of Gnopernicus.
The Gnome-speech documentation states that it currently supports Festival,
IBM Viavoice, and FreeTTS.  I've never heard of FreeTTS.  Has anybody
tried it?  Does it sound halfway decent?  Is it easier to build than
Festival?  I'd like to play with Gnopernicus to see what state it is in,
but the last time I attempted to build Festival, I got so confused that I
gave up.  I'm not too keen on Viavoice since it's pretty much abandoned.
If nobody has heard of FreeTTS, has anybody built Festival on Slackware 9
and actually used it?  Thanks for any info.