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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)? 

FLITE could be what you are looking for - Festival Lite. It is less 
flexible than Festival, but a lot lighter on resources also.

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