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Is there anything out there that will take command line input and just say it 
aloud?  I found festival, and this appears to be the only viable option for 
text to speech on Linux...and it doesnt take a straight command line 
argument, you have to put the text into a file first, or do it interactively 
from stdin.  This can of course be scripted up very easily, I know, but in 
any case, does anyone know of any other text to speech tools for Linux (1000 
dollar IBM solutions dont count, it's gotta be  free)? 

-Jay


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