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They released it years ago, round about RH 6.0 or 6.1 timeframe. But
then I believe they pulled it. But I played with it then and it mostly
worked.
Michael
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> From: jay <jloden at toughguy.net>
> Sent: Nov 15, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] text to speech on Linux?
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> A friend of mine is finally making the move to Linux (yay) and one of the
> things that he uses daily on Windows is the text to speech engine to give him
> audio alerts for things. He's looking for a similar functionality on Linux.
>
> 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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