Speaking Text

[David C. Ullrich]

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...)


David C. Ullrich

 

[Hans Georg Krauthäuser]

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...)

David C. Ullrich

In Windows -> pyTTS

http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pytts.html

Regards
Hans Georg

 

[Duncan Booth]

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...)

Perhaps http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pytts.html ?

Or if all else fails Python can drive Microsoft's MSAGENT for speaking
animated figures.

 

[Grant Edwards]

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?

The only speach sythesizer I've seen on Linux boxes is festival:

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

You can use os.system() to run it from the "command line" or
there are various client APIs:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_28.html#SEC126

But, it's not installed by default on any distros I've ever
used...

 

[David C. Ullrich]

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...)

Thanks for the replies.

David C. Ullrich

David C. Ullrich