The festvox project, based at Carnegie Mellon University, distributes documentation, scripts, and examples that should be sufficient for an interested person to build her own synthetic voices in currently supported languages or new languages in the University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System. The quality of the result depends much on the time and skill of the builder. For English, it may be possible to build a new voice in a couple of days' work; a new language may take months or years to build.
