TTS w/ hi-quality natural sounding voices for GNU/Linux

There's a bunch of nice text-to-speech apps for Windows, but are there any that could run on Arch? Festival isn't terrible, but it's not good. By good I mean sth along the lines of http://www.expressivo.com It doesn't have to be free, it may be a commercial product.
I've checked out espeak, flite, http://www.cepstral.com/demos and found them all lacking.
Acapela TTS isn't bad, but it's only for Windows and Mac OSX.
A nice list of different voice samples: http://www.nextup.com AT&T Natural Voices aren't available for GNU/Linux
Last edited by karol (2010-04-09 07:09:39)

karol wrote:By good I mean sth along the lines of http://www.expressivo.com It doesn't have to be free, it may be a commercial product.
The expressivo video sounds terrible. AT&T Natural Voices are the best sounding I know of and is also available for GNU/Linux.

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