gnome-speech supporting alternative synthesizers

[Dave]

Hello,
    First of all please forgive the cross-posting, freebsd.org/gnome showed 
one email, while make maintainer in /usr/ports/accessibility/gnome-speech 
showed another.
    My name is Dave. I'm a user and a system administrator of FreeBSD 
currently with only 5.x and 6.x systems. My primary use has been in the 
configuration, deployment, and utilization of servers, however i'd like to 
replace some Linux desktops with FreeBSD. I am visually impaired so in this 
role i would utilize x-windows and gnopernicus. This combination i have 
working quite well on a testbox my one problem is the quality of the 
festival speech i find difficult to understand for longterm daily use. On a 
Linux box when one wants to add an additional synthesizer one has to 
recompile the rpm, source tarball etc. of gnome-speech with the appropriate 
module added-in. So i took a look at the gnome-speech makefile and 
specifically the festival example. I'd like to see if i can get gnome-speech 
going with other synths, specifically one already in ports audio/flite and 
two commercially available synths: Ibm's TTS formerly known as Viavoice info 
at:
http://ibmtts-sdk.sourceforge.net/
and Fonix's dectalk:
http://www.digibuy.com/cgi-bin/product.html?1118982230388.
My theory is i should be able to get these going using linux binary 
emulation. I realize both of the above are commercial, and i have not looked 
in to any legal or distribution issues, as of now i'm simply doing this as a 
feasibility study and to improve accessibility. If i do get this working 
would you be interested in a patch to the Makefile to pull in these 
additional synths if found, or use the new makefile options facility so that 
an interested end-user can select the desired synth. My thinking on the 
commercial aspect is treat them as the Sun JDK, downloadable files only, 
where the user has to purchase the synth from the company providing it, load 
linux binary emulation, drop the tarball in, and install or reinstall 
gnome-speech to have the the new synth registered.
    Suggestions or comments welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.