[ltp] thinkpad speaking

[billy ball]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Tom Rockwell wrote:

> Interesting question, I haven't tried to do this in linux.  I've played
> with 
> speech synth a little bit on VMS (used for warnings in a control room).
> 
> A search of www.freshmeat.net turned up http://www.SpeechIO.org/ and
> http://www.op.net/~darxus/speechio/dl/
> 
> Tell us how it works out.
> 
> Tom
> 
> eduardo wrote:

tom, eduardo - the best speech output (IMHO) is the festival system:

www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html

i use it with this:

lynx -dump http://dailynews.yahoo.com/tx/ts/summary.html >news.raw
tail -115 | festival --tts

to download and read news headlines...

hth

billy ball


> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to know if exists a software for linux that speaks a text
> > file...
> > 
> > Could anyone gives me a help?
> > 
> > --
> > Eduardo Cruz
> > mailto:eduardo@campinas.net
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