Text to voice -

[Bob Goodwin]

John Wendel wrote:

> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest an application to convert
>> text to voice audio to read e-mail, etc. aloud?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Bob Goodwin    Zuni, Virginia
>>
>>
>
> "festival" is the text-to-speech app shipped with Fedora. "man 
> festival" has the details. It would be really nice if it was 
> integrated with the desktop, if you get it working in a useful fashion 
> let us know.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
Thanks for the guidance, someone mentioned "flite" and/or "festival," 
neither of which showed in my google effort? It turns out that festival 
is available from yum and also on disk #3 of FC-2, this distribution.

I installed festival from the FC-2 CD and now have to figure out what it 
is and what I can do with it.

I lost most of the sight in my right eye a couple of years ago and now I 
am having trouble with the left eye. I can still read text on the screen 
but with difficulty, making it large helps but converting it to voice 
might be useful at least part of the time.

Bob Goodwin