Another repost. This pos, form acassis is special for my quest to Voice Picking with freesoftware. More resources on SVox can be found at Open Hand Set Alliance www.openhandsetalliance.com . acassis : " Finally SVox PicoTTS (from Android) is available on Ubuntu 10.10. To install it execute: $ sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils To test execute it: $ pico2wave -w /tmp/test.wav 'Hello World' $ aplay /tmp/test.wav