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Hello: I am a newbie and hope that I am not in the wrong forum.
Recently I lost the majority of my tongue and with it the power of speech. I am trying to figure out how to have my GNU/Linux computer running Ubuntu 9.04 speak text that I write. Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you, Jim Rimedio <snip>
You can use any of the text to speech (TTS) engines. For example you make espeak say something with a command like "espeak hi".
Some of the TTS engines are
espeak - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
epos - Text-to-speech system
flite - A small run-time speech synthesis engine
festival - General multi-lingual speech synthesis system
Don't forget open-sapi that is still under development but is becomming a valid TTS solution.