How to get Festival text to speech working?

[Ed Greshko]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:57 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>> personally i found that http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ is already much
>> more versatile. 
> 
> Hmm, neither this, nor Festival, sound as good as the speak device on
> the Amiga (from the mid 1980s).  That's a bit surprising, I'd have
> thought that it'd be vastly outperformed, by now.

Is this observation from memory or do you have an Amiga running today and
are making an actual comparison?  Just wondering.