I'll grant that TTS is possible in small-memory machines. But Festival isn't going to be the solution:

To quote from http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/manual-1.4.1/festival_30.html#SEC138

The system is too big. It takes a long time to compile even on quite large machines, and its foot print is still in the 10s of megabytes as is the run-time requirement. Although we have spent some time trying to fix this
(optional modules have made the possibility of building a much smaller binary) we haven't done enough yet.

So Festival has a ways to go yet...but I'm sure there are other solutions out there.


-Zandr
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