eSpeak Speech Synthesizer

eSpeak is a open-source text to speech engine that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). It can read text files or stdin inputs.

To invoke it open a terminal and type

$ espeak

Now each line you enter into the prompt will be read aloud.

If you want some long text to be read aloud, start eSpeak with the --stdin option

$ espeak --stdin

Now copy some text from anywhere and paste into the prompt (ctrl+shift+v). Then press Return and (ctrl+d).

If you have a text file, say example.txt, you can set the option -f <text file>

$ espeak -f example.txt

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