I was hoping that someone would take my challenge to make TTS on the empeg a reality, but all I really got was bellyaching that the quality of the speech wasn't good enough. I did a lot of the initial investigation and basically proved out the concept (using three freely available programs), but I really can't handle the integration of the TTS, sample rate conversion, and audio output into one binary without some help. All the ingredients are there, they just need to be combined and tweaked. We already have song names, artists, etc. in /proc/empeg_notify so I don't think it's a huge leap to suggest that if we got a TTS binary working, we'd easily meet or exceed what the Neo does.