I am looking to programatically generate text to speech wave files on my Ubuntu box and the Festival and Text2Wave tools in Ubuntu seem to do a pretty good job of this, except for the generally poor voices and lack of accents.
The only TTS I can find with Australian accents are the Realspeak voices Lee and Karen. I have these files in the format which they can be loaded into TextAloud on Windows, but I wonder if there is any way of making it work with Festival or another command line linux tool.