I've toyed around with Ratts quite a bit and when you do have the help files it makes everything seem more complicated than it really is. So, here's a little patch that contains the bare essentials that you need to do start experimenting with Ratts:

#N canvas 87 74 462 312 10;

#X obj 259 232 dac~;

#X obj 221 96 guessphones;

#X obj 221 179 klatt~;

#X obj 335 105 tgl 15 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1 -1 1

#X obj 220 117 phones2holmes f;

#X obj 271 203 freeverb~;

#X obj 335 125 metro 15;

#X msg 155 120 basec \$1;

#X floatatom 155 102 5 0 0 0 - - -;

#X msg 14 7 I wanna be your witch doktah oh yeah;

#X msg 142 148 f0decl 20;

#X obj 216 140 holmes f0decl 0 topc -30;

#X msg 14 49 this is SO crazy;

#X msg 14 28 yo homes;

#X msg 14 71 browthoom koma blessooth yoelin;

#X obj 334 85 loadbang;

#X connect 4 0 11 0;

#X connect 6 0 11 0;

#X connect 7 0 11 0;

#X connect 10 0 11 0;

#X connect 11 0 2 0;

#X connect 12 0 1 0;

#X connect 13 0 1 0;

#X connect 14 0 1 0;

#X connect 15 0 3 0;

On 2-Jun-07, at 5:53 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 10:15 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:

Hallo,
Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

There is an external for Festival Lite - think it's called flite; was
tricky to compile the last time I used it; it renders sentences to audio
in tables iirc - was a while ago I tried it. I think pd-radio used it
too, but I could be wrong...

There also is ratts, which is very cool.

i found the external in:

<pd-cvs>/abstractions/rradical/instruments/speakerboxx/ratts.pd_linux

but i couldn't find a help file. also when i create it, i get the
message:

ratts: Realtime Analog Text-To-Speech externals v0.04 by Bryan Jurish
ratts: Based on text-to-speech code by Nick Ing-Simmons and Jon Iles
ratts: and PD external code by Orm Finnendahl and Travis Newhouse

but the object doesn't get any inlets nor outlets. maybe you can tell us
a bit more about this external?

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