[ale] text to speech on Linux?

[jay]

On Monday 15 November 2004 01:22 pm, Fletch wrote:
> echo "Blah" | festival --tts
>
> You should be able to install it through your distro's package manager
> (RH 8 and on came with it, I'm fairly sure debian has a dpkg, yadda
> yadda yadda).  If not see:
>
> http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for, I just couldnt figure out how 
to pipe that in correctly to festival to make it just say it without 
interaction :)

On Monday 15 November 2004 04:17 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> I use festival as follows. ?I have a script called text2talk which
> consists of:
>
> echo "(SayText \"$*\")" | festival --pipe
>
> You execute it like this:
>
> text2talk hey you!

Also good stuff!  I was planning on a Python script to do this anyway, but 
this is simple and nice.  Thanks for the tips on festival...looks like it's 
the only real choice out there for Linux tts engines. 

-Jay