Where is "say" ?

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sun Jan 13 17:51:02 UTC 2008


Stan,

stan wrote:
> I'm playing with wifi-radar this weekend, trying to get it to
> autonconfigure my wireless network on boot without having to log in to the
> KDE session.
> 
> One of the configuration options in /etc/wifi-radar.conf is to make it
> "speak" the changes it makes.
> 
> This relies on an executable called "say" which if memory serves me
> correctly is a front end to the Festival text to speech tools.
> 
> How can I find out what package I need to install to have this executable
> installed? apt-cache search did not seem to lead me to an answer.

Or you could make it use the espeak command which is installed by default!

Regards,
Tony.
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