I'm reasonably lisp-capable, but a total newbie to Festival. I have a server that my sysadmin has outfitted with festival 1.96 (apparently there's no FreeBSD port of 2.x, and he's intensely reluctant to install software where no port exists) that does NOT have the 'text2wave' app; if that's part of a BSD port, it's not obvious which one.
So, how can I take a blob of text and spit out a wave file with that text rendered in english? My lisp-fu is pretty adequate, but I couldn't find docs on the festival site detailing how to bypass the /dev/dsp output (because this server doesn't have that device).