This morning, Terry ask me how we get Linux to do read out a paragraph or sentence. I guess this is because he want to read Kamil’s blog on QuGee Friends but finding it too long. We did it before, but forgot how to do it, so after we found out how to do it I decided we will blog it for future reference or anyone else why want to try it. We are using Ubuntu, but similar for other Linux distribution.
We first need to get the software festival:
- sudo apt-get install festival
Once it’s installed, it’s very easy, there are two ways to do it:
To read from a text file (in the directory):
- festival –tts yourfile.txt
Or you can run festival first (type festival in the terminal) and then
- festival> (SayText “Hello word!”)
or read out a text file:
- festival> (tts “yourfile.txt” nil)
Enjoy!
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