Festival is great. Not only it is GPLed ('course), but it's also truly multi-lingual, thanks to a Welsh speech researcher (Briony Williams). Unfortunately, the letter-to-sound rules for Welsh are now written in Lisp. Goal, then, is to attempt to gain a passing acquaintance with Lisp. Never thought I'd see myself typing that. Mind, never thought I'd have to use Fortran either; that's another story.