These voices come from: http://www.festvox.org/flite/packed/flite-2.1/voices/ To install them, for instance, as root: mkdir -p /usr/share/flite/voices cp cmu_us_aew.flitevox /usr/share/flite/voices/aew The voice name, in this case aew, should exists in the file/etc/speech-dispatcher-modules/flite-generic.conf for this file to be available in Orca and other applicationd linked to Speech Dispatcher.