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Linux Text-to-Speech application...
Name: hoWard Date: May 6, 2004 at 10:58:17 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: 1.2GB/256MB
Comment:
Does anyone know of a text-to-speech application, like ReadPlease, that runs under Linux? Thanks
Name: Wolfbone Date: May 6, 2004 at 13:45:31 Pacific
Reply:
There's Festival: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/
It's a TTS 'engine' and I've only heard of 1 or 2 apps actually using it for screen reading. It works well in emacs and from the commandline. You should check on the mozilla site to see what (if anything) they are doing TTS-wise. KDE and GNOME are bound to have something too.
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