Oh, don't get me wrong, even with flite working I'll still use your ttsclock. It's much higher quality. But flite is already ported to the ARM and runs in the tight memory requirements. For something like a clock, pre-recorded speech is a good solution, but I'm looking for ways to do dynamic speech... e.g. reading directions from a GPS or reading messages that come in on my pager.

If I have ttsclock's startup script called B10tts, it doesn't work because the drive isn't mounted. Named with an M, it's interleaved with the music... I looked at the source for preinit to see about adding a W (wait like the B does, but after mounting), but it forks to wait for the mounting to happen so it's beyond my ability to add such a feature.