!636 (modern)

// speech libraries!
!1000722 1000723 1000724
!1000730 1000731 1000732
!1000726 1000727

import javax.speech.*;
import javax.speech.synthesis.*;

main {
  psvm {
    speech("Hello Java X!");
  }
  
  public static void speech(String text) {
    if (text == null || text.trim().isEmpty()) return;

    String voiceName = "kevin16";

    try {
      System.setProperty("FreeTTSSynthEngineCentral", "com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral");
      System.setProperty("freetts.voices", "com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.cmu_us_kal.KevinVoiceDirectory");
      Central.registerEngineCentral("com.sun.speech.freetts.jsapi.FreeTTSEngineCentral");

      SynthesizerModeDesc desc = new SynthesizerModeDesc(null, "general", Locale.US, null, null);

      Synthesizer synth = Central.createSynthesizer(desc);
      synth.allocate();
      desc = (SynthesizerModeDesc) synth.getEngineModeDesc();
      Voice[] voices = desc.getVoices();
      Voice voice = null;
      for (Voice entry : voices) {
          if(entry.getName().equals(voiceName)) {
              voice = entry;
              break;
          }
      }
      synth.getSynthesizerProperties().setVoice(voice);
      synth.resume();
      synth.speakPlainText(text, null);
      synth.waitEngineState(Synthesizer.QUEUE_EMPTY);
      synth.deallocate();

    } catch(Exception ex) {
      String message = " missing speech.properties in " + System.getProperty("user.home") + "\n";
      System.out.println("" + ex);
      System.out.println(message);
      ex.printStackTrace();
  }
  }
}