[ale] text to speech on Linux?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:25, Dow_Hurst wrote:
> Has IBM released again the via-voice software developers stuff for Linux?  What is available at all for voice recognition?  I know festival works fine since Geoffrey uses it in production for caller id and fax announcements.  He might be able to provide some of the scripting needed to pipe from one app to another.  I would like voice recognition under Linux integrated with KDE and OO.  ;-)
> Dow

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

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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?
> 
> 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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