Text to voice -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at att.net
Sat Jan 22 18:53:40 UTC 2005
John Wendel wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest an application to convert
>> text to voice audio to read e-mail, etc. aloud?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
>>
>>
>
> "festival" is the text-to-speech app shipped with Fedora. "man
> festival" has the details. It would be really nice if it was
> integrated with the desktop, if you get it working in a useful fashion
> let us know.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
Thanks for the guidance, someone mentioned "flite" and/or "festival,"
neither of which showed in my google effort? It turns out that festival
is available from yum and also on disk #3 of FC-2, this distribution.
I installed festival from the FC-2 CD and now have to figure out what it
is and what I can do with it.
I lost most of the sight in my right eye a couple of years ago and now I
am having trouble with the left eye. I can still read text on the screen
but with difficulty, making it large helps but converting it to voice
might be useful at least part of the time.
Bob Goodwin
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