Speech Synthesis

Are there any third party real-time speech synthesis modules that can be implemented into Blitz?

I know there are third party programs that can generate lines of text that can be saved off, but I'd like to implement it in real-time.

for example, could the festival speech system be implemented in Blitz?
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

I already tried to make a compiled win32 binary of festival work on my machine, but it didn't work. The docs are also kind of confusing, concerning the shell-syntax. If you can make it work, let me know.

On Win2000 and XP there's the preinstalled "agent" that makes it easy, Simply use the decls calls as seen in the code archives/userlibs.

Although there are some files on microsofts servers that allow to install the "agent" on older machines, from my tests I remember there were some troubles and it didn't work for some reason.

Microsoft also offer the SAPI 5.02 (or so) for redistribution, although I'm not sure if you may redistribute it commercially without any limit. Its quality is pretty bad for todays standards.

Festival still seems to be the best thing for free that works (?) on all win32 OSes. I have found Win32 binary here:
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mfickett/festival.html
Although, as I said, it didn't work on my machine for some reason. I'd recompile the original, latest version sourcecode, but I haven't got a c++ enviroment installed at the moment. It also doesn't sound sooo easy when you follow the compilation guide on the guys page.