[Cialug] something like OSX /usr/bin/say on linux?

Nathan Stien nathanism at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 13:29:46 CST 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
>  did it install any voices?

# apt-get install festival
  [...]
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    festival festlex-cmu festlex-poslex festvox-kallpc16k

festvox-kallpc16k: "American English male speaker for festival, 16khz
sample rate"

>  or just install banzai buddy under wine :)

Ha.  While we're obscenely wasting resources, I might as well run OS X
in a VM and then "ssh virtualosx say $STRING".   ;-)

- Nathan


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