Speaking Text

Bill Scherer bill.scherer at verizonwireless.com
Wed Mar 19 08:57:52 EDT 2008


David C. Ullrich wrote:
> Mac OS X has text-to-speech built into the interface.
> So there must be a way to access that from the command
> line as well - in fact the first thing I tried worked:
>
> os.system('say hello')
>
> says 'hello'.
>
> Is there something similar in Windows and/or Linux?
> (If it's there in Linux presumably it only works if there
> happens to be a speech engine available...)
>   
With a little effort, the same code can work on Linux with the Festival
speech engine.

See http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/*festival*/


>
> David C. Ullrich
>   

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