. Tony, with an unpatched kernel, does it work the same as before or does it not run?

Um, I dunno, why dontcha try it?

It seems to me that the unpatched kernel won't know what to make of the O_SYNC flag when the audio device is opened... It might just ignore it but I haven't tried it out.

Glad to hear you merged the audio routines in. This is really looking great. I threw about a hundred random trivia questions at ttsd last night just for fun and I'd say 80% of them were perfectly understandable, another 15% had a word or two that got jumbled, and another 5% I kinda had to read the question to understand. That's not too bad. I could theoretically put in a phonetic version of the question for tough-to-pronounce words, but I'm not sure I'll care enough to do that.

Maybe we should start asking Alan Black about the timetable for a 1.2 release of Flite... Or maybe look into a group buy of his commercial product...