Text to speech

PatrickMay16 · 09-26-2005, 04:46 PM

For a year or so now, I've been using text to speech to read stuff to me while I lie in bed before going to sleep every night. It's very nice.

Do any of you do this?

Melsync · 09-26-2005, 06:27 PM

I think that Festival of the University of Edinburgh outputs voice from text, although their demos are in English and Spanish only, I think.
Festival is probably a package included in many distros. At least it is in Fedora.

heema · 09-27-2005, 03:55 AM

yeah festival is very good , i just tried it recently

i am starting to use it now in my scripts

this article talks about festival and has a nice rss reader script that will output the result to festival so that you could listen to the latest news

http://linuxgazette.net/114/john.html

Melsync · 09-30-2005, 08:04 AM

Do you guys know of any commercial application for text to speech that is also bash-capable and scriptable?

Melsync · 10-06-2005, 10:51 AM

The way to listen to the sound generated by festival is
$ echo "Hello, world" | festival --tts
or
$ festival --tts hello.txt
where hello.txt is a file containing the text "Hello, world".

How do you record the output?

I've tried

$ echo "Hello, world" | festival --tts > hello.au
$ rec `echo "Hello, world" | festival --tts` hello.au

but it won't work.

Melsync · 01-14-2006, 11:35 AM

Here it is:
text2wave somefile.txt > somefile.wav
from
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eply&p=1610019

PatrickMay16 · 01-16-2006, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Melsync

Here it is:
text2wave somefile.txt > somefile.wav
from
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eply&p=1610019

This is exactly what I've wanted for a while now. Thanks very much!