[bramd]

My thought exactly. An open source version could be nice in it's own right or lead to good improvements on other open source speech synthesizers such as Espeak. I think current TTS research/software is only focused on sounding nice and human. This is cool if you want to replace a human voice with something computer generated, but not ideal if you want an efficient speech output that can convey as much info as possible as fast as possible. Predictability is key here, I could proofread a text in Dutch (my native language) with ETI Eloquence set to English and just by the sound of certain letter combinations I would know if there is a spelling mistake, couldn't do that with any other "better sounding" synth.