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#1

Does any one know of any good text to speech software for ubuntu, or a on-line text to speech converter that does not limit the characters you can input?

Thanks.

#2

There is a good free Windows text-to-speech and text-to-mp3 software at panopreter.com, but on Ubuntu, you can use Festival.

#3

I would like a text to speech app with a GUI, can it be done to festival?...Festival is just too complicated... How can it be suggested to canonical? 100 paper cuts? although this is not a bug...

#4

KDE has kmouth, I don't know if it will work under GNOME or not. It's in the repositories.

#5

Festival does its job well.

#6

Install espeak package

espeak -f <filename>