Looking for Best Linux Text to Speech?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

I agree about the Cepstral voices, except they will only give you wav
output from a textg file. From there it would be: lame to go to mp3, oggenc
to go to ogg, and sox to go to gsm, etc. Nice  opportunity for a bit of
bash scripting.


On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, John G. Heim wrote:

> The Cepstral voices are excellent. If responsiveness is not important, they
> are great. It depends on what you consider a reasonable cost.
>
>
> On 08/31/13 19:43, 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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