diff -urN flite.orig/files/const.patch flite/files/const.patch
--- flite.orig/files/const.patch	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ flite/files/const.patch	2004-05-30 09:51:32.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- flite-1.2-release/tools/find_sts_main.c.orig	2002-12-26 12:18:30.000000000 -0500
++++ flite-1.2-release/tools/find_sts_main.c	2004-05-30 09:33:11.360945688 -0400
+@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <math.h>
+ #include <string.h>
++
++/* to allow some normally const fields to be manipulated during building */
++#define const
++
+ #include "cst_wave.h"
+ #include "cst_track.h"
+ #include "cst_sigpr.h"
diff -urN flite.orig/flite-1.2.ebuild flite/flite-1.2.ebuild
--- flite.orig/flite-1.2.ebuild	2004-04-22 14:06:36.000000000 -0400
+++ flite/flite-1.2.ebuild	2004-05-30 10:36:13.000000000 -0400
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 src_unpack() {
 	unpack ${P}-release.tar.bz2
 	unpack ${PN}_lexfix.tar.gz
+	epatch ${FILESDIR}/const.patch
 
 	# Move the update into ${S}
 	cd ${PN}
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
 	if ! use static; then
 		myconf="${myconf} --enable-shared"
 	fi
+	myconf="${myconf} --with-vox=cmu_us_kal16"
 
 	econf ${myconf} || die "Failed configuration"
 	# -j2 borks when we make the shared libs