Linux Text-To-Speech Tutorial

In this tutorial, we show you how to do text-to-speech under Linux with the Festival application.

First, you need to install it on your system.
On my Fedora 12 I used this:

#yum install festival

1	#yum install festival

Try this command to see if it will allow you to use festival:

$which festival 
/usr/bin/festival

1 2	$which festival /usr/bin/festival

Now you can use the festival to synthesize it into speech.
Try this example:

$echo "This is a test " | festival --tts

1	$echo "This is a test " \| festival --tts

Another beautiful software is text2wave.
You can save text like a sound file.

$echo "This is a test " | text2wave  -o test.wav

1	$echo "This is a test " \| text2wave -o test.wav

Both commands have more options, you can see this by using the man command.