It's probably the best technology that the early 90s had to offer.
FTA:
gnuspeech is currently fully available as a
NextSTEP 3.x version in the SVN repository
along with the Gnu/Linux/GNUStep version,
which is incomplete though functional
Wikipedia[1]:
3.0 September 8, 1992
3.1 May 25, 1993
3.2 October 1993
3.3 February 1995
FTA:
Wikipedia[1]: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Release_history