text-to-speech on the iphone

surprising how little there is out there. i'm probably not looking in the right place. a number of people got flite running: http://artofsystems.blogspot.com/2009/02/speech-synthesis-on-iphone-with-flite.html http://www.voxtrek.com/ http://www.cmang.org/ http://www.embiggened.info/vocalizer.html some of them have itunes links to buy the software, but they don't seem to be active. one is a navigation system, another is just flite with a little gui icing.

festival voices

had to try some different voices with festival, since the default one on the acer aspire sounded terrible. kal is the default on gentoo, and is the one i'm most used to. ked sounds pretty good, too; maybe i'll use it when it want to differentiate. both of these are diphone voices. all the arctic voices i listened to sounded pretty bad. to switch between them globally, just put (set! voice_default 'voice_kal_diphone) into /etc/festival/siteinit.scm