embedded text to speech converter

[Kyle]

Sounds like my main problem with OpenMary is that I'm using openjdk-jre 
instead of sun-java6-jre. I'll try again with sun-java6-jre installed to 
see if that solves the problem.

The requirement of sun-java6-jre may be a little too much on an embedded 
system where the OP plans to use it though, unless the remote server is 
an option. But usually it is unwise to require a connection to a network 
in order to get speech. In this case, eSpeak and SVox Pico are the 
smallest and best options, as they use much less memory and are both 
already supported by speech-dispatcher. Flite is another option for 
low-memory systems, but the speech-dispatcher module for it only works 
with the worst sounding voice. There are 3 or 4 other better voices that 
can be selected from the command line, but they don't work with 
speech-dispatcher's flite module for some reason.
~Kyle