Festival vs. F-lite file sizes (installed)

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Hi list,

We seem to be having some last minute confusion with regard to the 
Festival and F-lite options for speech support on the Live CD.

For some reason it was assumed that Festival would require 40MB of 
installed space, while F-lite would only require 8MB. However, it turned 
out that F-lite was not supported directly by gnome-speech and so we 
needed to add speech-dispatcher to make it work. Unfortunately, this 
takes the total to 17MB.

apt-cache show festival now only shows 7.3MB (and with dev packages 
removed it's more like 4.8MB)

So the confusion is now complete ... is Festival really that small? and 
if so why should we not simply go with Festival? We get better sound and 
can avoid the unstable gnome-speech CVS and speech dispatcher.

What are we missing from this picture? :)

- Henrik