As I mentioned before, I can't code to save my life; but I went ahead to try install it. I found a post on espeakcaller+mbrola http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=175 and some instruction on espeak+mbrola at http://espeak.sourceforge.net/mbrola.html

I did the following to get espeak to use mbrola on the terminal.

1. follow the instruction on sourcforge page to download the mbrola and voice file.

2 extract and copy the mbrola file into /sbin; and make it executable for everyone. I don't know where to put the path info, so I put it at /sbin. I use WinSCP to transfer the files over to n900.

3. extract and copy the voice file en1 into /home/opt/espeak/data/mbrola

4. issue command at the x-term to say hello world:
espeak -v mb-en1 "Hello World"

To me the voice sounds better than the standard espeak voice. I have also downloaded and played with the us2 voice as well and I like its voice better still. In #4 step, I had to become root - I would get 'not home user' message; otherwise I got some more serious sounding error about mbrola wrapper error. In both case, espeak use the mbrola voice

It appears that if you would add the option of embedding the language voice string(eg. mb-en1, mb-us2); then user can setup espeak+mbrola himself and he would have a better sounding voice for navigation.

Cheers,