Text To Speech On Linux With Festival

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesizer (a text-to-speech program). It will read documents saved on your system, or read highlighted text you have selected with your mouse or cursor. Also, it can convert the document into an mp3 that you can then play with your audio player.

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[AlucardNoir]

TTS is great for proofreading. You're almost always going to miss something, TTS can highlight that in a rather novel manner.

[auroradraco]

Thanks for helping us discover all these apps Derek. I really appreciate your work.

[marioschroers]

Being a linguist, I love tts. I remember a website that used a tts function where you could have it read out news articles offered on that website. Back in the days, it would put a prosodic break whenever clickable hyperlinks occurred, so the tts sounded like: »The replacement of 1.5 million notebook batteries by Dell. And by Apple!« I used to celebrate this, made me laugh so hard! 😀

Oh, you actually cite Kaczyński 1995. Excellent read, sir!

[AngelCintiaRockgirl]

These tutorials are the best. Complete, thorough, clearly explained, and done step by step so that when I follow along I can see we will have the same problem together, or if it is just me then I can stop right there to find a fix, knowing exactly where I am.

[zzRider]

For the dyslexic, text to speech (at least for complicated and/or verbose material ) is undeniably beneficial.

[theignorantphilosopher]

It is certainly interesting. I have actually been looking into this subject in the past, but didn't really find anything of note. However, as of yet, this is simply not good enough, by which I mean that would not be able to listen to it for even a short periode of time, without me getting an anusrim or something.

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Derek. I tried this many years ago but never found any decent use for it.

[Maldito]

Thanks! Using Foliate + Festival to read books aloud.
It's surprisingly hard to figure out what Festival voices are female, so I'm just using the one in the video, instead of downloading and trying them all.

[johnmal]

Nifty little program. Thanks for sharing!

[blz]

Thank you! Got it working in seconds <3

[ariathyf]

TTS are very handy (I've used Acapela TTS back in winXP).

French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian those are some of the languages that would help a lot to have.

[kebman]

I saw Arch Linux install "with speech" - what does that mean? Is it the above? Or is it something better, like the voices you get in Microsoft Edge? (I don't like Edge, but honestly their T2S is great sounding).

[Johndoe-]

I have been looking for a good tts for a long time and this has somehow never come across my desk. Thank you.

[user]

There was TTS program at least fifteen years ago (I can't remember the name of the program), which produced almost real sounding human voice. Unfortunately it wasn't open source though.

[IncomingLegend]

google IBM TTS and try their demo... they even use a markup language
that tells the synthesizer when to pause, lower or raise tones etc...
best TTS in the world at the moment I'd say...

[SupaShang]

Combine this with the PulseEffects app and make,

Pitch ON "Cents: -14" "Semitones: -5" "Octaves: 0" "Crispness: 0"

Reverberation ON "Diffusion: 0.50", "Room Size: Large" "Decay Time: 1.5",

to make your PC sound like a giant robot or an alien from Star Trek. :D

[thenextpoetician]

Unfortunately, so long as the voice is robotic, the novelty wears off really fast. Some day they'll get it right.

[mylinuxgr]

Same commands as you, but I got a guy reading :). Another great little app for the terminal. Thanks DT!

[rizkyadiyanto]

would be nice if theres comparison with other similar program

[barkingbandicoot]

TTS tip: Have your emails read out by highlighting text then right clicking and selecting 'Speak text' in Kmail.