Text2wave

text2wave is a utility included with the Festival project, which allows you to convert a text document to a synthesized speech audio file..

How to use

• First, Install Festival.
• Create a sample text file:

echo "linuxquestions.org" > mytext.txt

• Convert your text file to audio:

text2wave -o mytext.wav myaudio.txt

• To see more options:

text2wave --help

• Or:

man text2wave

• Download over 30,000 free ebooks from Project Gutenberg and convert them to audio for your MP3 player or burn a CD:

text2wave -o waroftheworlds.wav waroftheworlds.txt

Wave files can be very large; you may want to convert them to a compressed format using the Lame MP3 encoder or Sox.

See also

• Accessibility
• Festival
• Swift
• Sox

External links

• Festival Project Manual
• Project Gutenberg