does fedora have a package that provides "say" speech synthesizer used in MAC OS X

dwcote · 12-04-2012, 09:41 PM

Does Fedora have a package that provides the "say" speech synthesizer which is used in MAC OS X.

macemoneta · 12-04-2012, 11:17 PM

On Fedora you can use festival. if it's not installed (as root):

Code:

yum install festival

You can then say something with, for example:

Code:

echo "This is a test" | festival --tts

If you want to save the speech in a file, then:

Code:

echo "This is a test" | text2wave -o test.wav

dwcote · 12-05-2012, 12:37 AM

Thank you I know about festival. Doesn't work nearly as well as say. Say has a large number of voices most of which sound pretty good. Pronunciation is much more realistic and it's not monotone like festival is. I used festival before and was never satisfied with it and it hasn't really gotten any better since I used it 8 years ago. But thank you anyway.