The last time I brought up the notion of Festival in Hugo's presence, he started muttering unkind things about memory usage. Apparently TTS in general is rather memory intensive. I think the intended solution was to be able to attach a bit of mp3 sound to each menu item. empeg would put together a set of files for the standard menus, and leave it up to the user to provide clips for playlists.

Yeah, but that's not really TTS, that's cheating! :)