FreeTTS hits 100,000

A bit of a celebration in the Speech Group here in Sun Labs. According to the SourceForge statistics, as of today FreeTTS, the speech synthesizer written entirely in Java, has been downloaded over 100,000 times. Its popularity certainly has exceeded my expectations. It seems like I am hearing about a new application that uses FreeTTS almost every day.

Here's a WebStart demo of a talking clock that uses FreeTTS.