to convert txt readable with simpletext at os9

[Chris Mohler]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:32 PM, '2+ <electriclightheads at gmail.com> wrote:
> am still using MacOS9 to have a script sang with SimpleText application
> but it is only for that so
> i want to edit the script itself on Ubuntu
> and i even want to use python to algo-comp some weird songs
>
> well
> "is there anythang i can apt-get that can do the similar singings?"
> is an another question but
> what i want to ask with this thread is:
>
> is there a utility
> that would do the txt_created at linux.txt2txt_readable@os9.txt thang
> @ cmd-line (if i could be greedy)?
>
> tia

Ah, Simpletext singing - good stuff.  There are at least three
text-to-speech programs in the repositories - espeak, ksayit, and
festival.  IIRC, there are more voices for festival than for the
others - but I haven't played around with any of them for quite some
time.

Chris