Lightweight program to monitor your computer's resources.
Text to speech utility
Flite
highlight the flite link and then go to Menu / internet / xwget http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wmd04r/puppy/flite-1.3.pet∞
and middle mouse button to paste
(I got garbage when trying to download from http / browser)
restart x (not required if using icewm) and use flite test.txt from the console - where test.txt is a text file of what you want flite to say.
or direct from console
flite "A sentence to speak."