[ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps

[Matt Jones]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:54 AM, javadayaz<javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to convert from text to speech. Does anyone know of any free apps in
> ubuntu that can do this?
>
> Im planning on converting a book from text to speech so i can listen on my
> DAP.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Javad
>
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>

There is festival in the repositories- It is a command line app, so
you probably want to read about how to use it. You can specify it to
read out a file, there may be an option to output to a file although
it has been a while since I have used it.

Hope this helps,
Matt