Text To Speech
 

I want to use a text to speech program to have my computer read my english essays back to me (believe me, this helps!!). I have festival, but when I run it, I get this "Follow the yellow brick road" on helium type of voice. You know what I mean, right? ok, well: What can I do to have festival slow it down and lower the pitch? The other problem is it won't read files, only what I type into the term window and put into quotes. Thx
~Safyre

Hi,

as an indirect solution, you may want to try the Java speech API and related applications.

Never tried it (nor have I tried Festival) but it may be worth a look.

cheers
Herb