Hello Doug,
I am really surprised by the amount of responses my post has evoked,
Yours is, by far, the most detailed and well thought out. It is a pity
that I don't know any computer languages and so am not in a position
to offer any assistance in any of your four proposals.
But Gilles short post
Forward from debian-accessibility, from Mirko Maischberger:
Hello,
Piero Cosi just released two italian voices for festival under the terms
of the GNU/GPL.
http://www.csrf.pd.cnr.it/TTS/It-FESTIVAL-license.htm
Hope this info is useful.
Mirko Maischberger
PS: I'm not subscribed to this list