[ale] text to speech on Linux?
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Nov 15 16:18:50 EST 2004
jay wrote:
> A friend of mine is finally making the move to Linux (yay) and one of
> the things that he uses daily on Windows is the text to speech engine
> to give him audio alerts for things. He's looking for a similar
> functionality on Linux.
>
> Is there anything out there that will take command line input and
> just say it aloud? I found festival, and this appears to be the only
> viable option for text to speech on Linux...and it doesnt take a
> straight command line argument, you have to put the text into a file
> first, or do it interactively from stdin.
I use festival as follows. I have a script called text2talk which
consists of:
echo "(SayText \"$*\")" | festival --pipe
You execute it like this:
test2talk hey you!
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Until later, Geoffrey
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