Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

[B. Henry]

The svox voices were donated I thought, or was this only for Windows usage? 
I don't like pico svox at all for English, but found them quite listenable in French, and a much better alternative to espeak for Spanish; and at the moment the only alternative for Spanish in Linux that's of quality for
 the average user to use on a production system is Voxin, (IBMtts).
I certainly don't mind paying the $5 U.S. that a Voxin voice costs, but alternatives would certainly be welcomed. I am a big espeak fan, and do want to work with J.D. to try and improve Spanish when ever I get the chance to make some decent recordings, but no one nor two synths will be for everyone. 
BTW-does anyone have experience with Festival and Spanish?
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On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:28:46AM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> According to Fernando Botelho:
> # Someone with experience adapting voices for use with Orca/speech
> # dispatcher is:
> # Bohdan R. Rau
> # ethanak at polip.com
> #
> # He was working on adapting SAPI voices for use in Linux through Wine.
> # Maybe his experience would help with this.
> 
> Android voices should be even easier than SAPI voices to make work with
> speech-dispatcher, since x86 builds of Android are now available, and
> the voices need to be built for it, making them one step closer to
> x86-based desktop Linux. The main issue is going to be convincing the
> developers of such voices that many of us would be interested in
> purchasing them for a desktop Linux operating system, which would go a
> long way toward resolving any remaining incompatibilities and also would
> avoid licensing problems that could arise from running a voice on
> something other than the intended platform. Only the speech-dispatcher
> module would need to be figured out at that point. Of course the voices
> would need to be built for x86_64 as well, but in most cases this
> shouldn't cause significant problems.
> ~Kyle
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