On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Is there a Festival package for slackware? > > I would doubt it, as you need the jdk in order to build it, or at least, > it's a good idea, and I believe that Slack only has the run-time parts of > java, not the development stuff. You are confusing Festival with FreeTTS. Festival just needs C++ to build. Also, as of Slackware 9.1, they include the full Java SDK as an optional package in the D series. As to the other question, Gnopernicus doesn't support any hardware synthesizers to my knowledge.