Duke speaks: Free speech synthesis for Java

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Author: JT Smith

An anonymous reader writes: “Taken from http://java.sun.com/features/2001/12/flite.html, ‘Researchers from Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Burlington,
Massachusetts have created an open source speech synthesis engine
written entirely in the JavaTM programming language. This
high-performance software converts text to speech. You type it; your
workstation speaks it. And the whole world benefits.'”

For more information, see http://freetts.sourceforge.net/.