ttsynth and ubuntu hardy

[Mohammed Al-shar']

hi all.

I just saw this message from Luke Yelavich 
in the ubuntu accessibility mailing list. I would like to know if this has been fixed, or if it has a work around, as I am thinking of getting ttsynth:

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Greetings all.
I am writing to inform you all, that as of Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, to be released in April next year, the 
Ttsynth/Ibmtts speech synthesizer will no longer work, due to a library that it depends on, having been removed from 
the Ubuntu archives. This library was a left over piece from the gcc 2.95 and glibc 2.2 toolchain, that was kept in 
ubuntu for compatibility reasons. It is actually a wonder that it has stayed around this long.
 
I appreciate the fact that there are many of you out there that use this synth daily, however this decision was out 
of my hands, and it is a matter for the vendors to sort out. I would encourage users of this synth to contact the 
vendor from which you purchased your license, to ask them for a proper resolution to this issue. The library that 
ttsynth/ibmtts currently depends on is libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, which is the library that was removed from Ubuntu 
hardy.
 
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
 
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All the best,
Mohammed al-shar'
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