Text-to-speech - new voices?

text-to-speech - i lke the new 'Alex' voice
i'd like to get some other new high quality voices - are there any more?
i tried these and they sound good
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
anyone know if they work in leopard?
any other brands that are good for leopard?

Ok, found one that is the best I have heard thus far, very good. Still not perfect, but better than Alex. The voice is "Paul" and you can demo it here:
http://www.neospeech.com

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