English text speech synthesizer

 Recite is a program to do speech synthesis. The quality of sound
 produced is not terribly good, but it should be adequate for reporting
 the occasional error message verbally.
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 Given some English text, recite will convert it to a series of phonemes,
 then convert the phonemes to a sequence of vocal tract parameters, and
 then synthesise the sound a vocal tract would make to say the sentence.
 Recite can perform a subset of these operations, so it can be used to
 convert text into phonemes, or to produce an utterance based on vocal
 tract parameters computed by another program.