This is a Pocket PC 2003 compile of the FLITE 1.3 speech synthesis engine. FLITE is a subset of the fine Festival engine. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. Even if FLITE is only a subset, it is still a whopping 4 Mb executable. So to be really usefull, I guess compression of its data-structures will be required.

There is no source-code available for this item, since I didn't really code anything. FLITE is maintained by the CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) and already boasts experimental Windows CE support, so all I did was craft a project file and the little GUI.

The main author of FLITE, Kevin A. Lenzo, excuses the "poor" speech quality. The sample rate is only 8 Khz and the speech rules are supposeably not one of the best samples around, but it shows the potential.

Installation Guide:

- Unzip the file to a temporary folder.

- Execute the Install.vbs script to install the CAB file.