Where is "say" ?

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sat Jan 19 11:02:16 UTC 2008



'2+ wrote:
> i have hardy installed as a non-X CUI system
> if i try to install espeak
> will apt bring in too many thangs that will make my system
> heavy for an old machine oriented?

I don't think so. You can find out what espeak depends on by doing:

	sudo aptitude show espeak | more

or something similar.

Regards,
Tony.

>>> 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!
> 

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