[Freddy]

I was searching for a well priced web based TTS service and came across this company.

If you take a look at the prices they are quite affordable for a modest budget. And even for experimenting with it's not going to break the bank.

There's a demo page there too and I thought the voices sounded quite nice.

http://www.voicerss.org/

[claude2]

Okay, so, one slight defect on the pronunciation (s) 
But cool.