Created a Text To Speech (TTS) - WebService which uses Festival to do the TTS. You may have noticed the little speaker-icons under each blog-item. Well... click it to get spoken to!

Festival is mainly for UNIX and is C-source only, but thanks to excellent building-instructions even I was able to build it on our Win-box. After building I wrote a little WebService using Visual Studio .NET which starts up Festival and converts an incoming string to a WAV-sound file. After that I use LAME to convert WAV to MP3 (Flash can only load mp3's).