Hello! This may be of interest for some of you here on the list. I have found a package to get festival running with the swedish mbrola sw1 male vouce. the package is at: http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/JohanF/festival/ i hope that this sould be of any use for you since i know that some of you here on the list are from sweden. if anyone tests it and get it to work can you contact me? Kristoffer