5 Ways to Get Speech Output From Your Linux Terminal
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Summary
If a user has a Linux terminal, they can give it a voice using several command-line tools to enable it to talk.
ESpeak, which is open-sourced, is a lightweight and fast speech synthesizer, and it can carry out speech synthesis in several languages and accents.
To use it, a user simply types the speak command followed by the text they want it to say.
Festival is a more advanced alternative to ESpeak and offers more control over different voices and speech synthesis.
Google Speech is another tool that offers high-quality output but requires an internet connection because it leverages Google’s speech synthesis capabilities.
Say, also known as Speech Dispatcher, achieves similar functionality to the say command on macOS.
Finally, Flite is a smaller version of Festival and is designed to be faster and more suitable for low-resource systems such as older computers or Raspberry Pi.
