[NTLUG:Discuss] TTS

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Scott Blaydes
<sblaydes at netteksolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Allen Meyers wrote:
> > Is text to voice available in Linux and if so what is the package named.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Allen
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> Check out festival, as I believe it will do text to voice.
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Blaydes
>

Yes, you are correct,
See:  http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

I use it and works well for me.

Here is the manual:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_toc.html
Basic command line options:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_7.html#SEC19

The command:
 festival --tts  myfile.txt
Will read myfile.txt to you

And;
text2wav is comes with / is part of festival - it enables you to save
the output as wave file, (and then you can convert to mp3 with lame if
you so desire).

Example:
  text2wave myfile.txt -o myfile.wav ; lame myfile.wav myfile.mp3