Hello Steve.  Great stuff again with maryspeak.  I've cloned it from github and at the moment I can't get any speech out of it but I suspect that's a permissions issue or something.  Which user does maryspeak run as?  If it runs as the user that executes the maryspeak command I would expect sound if the user belongs to the 'audio' group.  I will solve it though because I am sure it is something I have not done.

I will pass this stuff on to Fernando of the F123 project because he has aksed me if I can produce a MaryTTS speech-dispatcher module and maryspeak may be an easy to hack the espeak-generic module to make marytts-generic.

On the subject of eSpeak; I suspect some folks have problems with languages other than English.  Certainly Fernando says it is hard to understand when it is speaking Porteugese (I probably spelt that wrong).

I guess this is quite possible since I doubt Jonathan Duddington is polyglot :)

Nice to see that the maryspeak repo also contains the MaryTTS Debian howto.

Thanks again.

Mike