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Festival is a popular open-source development and execution environment for speech synthesis. It has been well-integrated within many environments, particularly Unix ones, but so far has not been easy to integrate natively into Windows. We present two solutions to this: an MSAPI interface, which allows Festival voices to work with a range of speech-enabled Windows applications, and SpeechServer, a client-server architecture which allows Festival to operate within a Flash (or other) application within a web browser. While the motivation for this work was to enable new Welsh diphone Festival voices to be used within screenreaders and other Windows programs, the MSAPI interface is now modularised, allowing it to work with any Festival voice.