Festival 1.9.6_1 Port Successfully Running on FreeBSD 7.x - 8.x??

[Diego Montalvo]

Howdy!
Have installed festival 1.9.6_1 from the ports and everything seemed
to install correctly but for the life of me can not get jack working
on festival.   "can't find NAS server", get "SIOD Error" when running
"text2wave" etc....  All I want to do is have text2wave convert text
to an audio file, need no other functionality.   Has anyone
successfully installed 1.9.6_1 on FreeBSD and have it working properly
especially the "text2wave" script.

Thanks,
Diego