Looking for Best Linux Text to Speech?

[Jason Miller]

Hello,

You can use espeak and create your own voices, or modify current ones, to your liking, then use the espeak command to pipe a text file to a .wav file. After that, 
depending on what version of sox you have, you can use that to convert your .wav fie, if youprefer a different format, to something else.

Hope that helps.

Jason

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 08:43:15PM -0400, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote:
> I'm looking for Linux software for good sounding text to speech, either free
> or at a reasonable cost. I am not looking for a synthesizer but rather
> software to turn text files into sound files in wav, mp3, gsm, etc.
> Currently, I'm using the old IBM ViaVoice. Any recommendations?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 
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