Installation
Install Festival by typing the following command in a Terminal:
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sudo apt-get install festival
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Note: Additional voices are available in the Ubuntu repositories. Type “festvox” in Synaptic Package Manager for a list of language packages.
Testing
Test your setup by typing in a Terminal
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festival
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You will be presented with a > prompt. Type
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(SayText “Hello”)
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The computer should say “hello”.
To listen to a text file named FILENAME, type
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(tts “FILENAME” nil)
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Note FILENAME must be in quote marks.