Speaking Text

David C. Ullrich

Mac OS X has text-to-speech built into the interface.
So there must be a way to access that from the command
line as well - in fact the first thing I tried worked:

os.system('say hello')

says 'hello'.

Is there something similar in Windows and/or Linux?
(If it's there in Linux presumably it only works if there
happens to be a speech engine available...)
David C. Ullrich

Mar 19 '08 #1

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On 19 Mrz., 13:41, David C. Ullrich <dullr...@sprynet.comwrote:

Mac OS X has text-to-speech built into the interface.
So there must be a way to access that from the command
line as well - in fact the first thing I tried worked:

os.system('say hello')

says 'hello'.

Is there something similar in Windows and/or Linux?
(If it's there in Linux presumably it only works if there
happens to be a speech engine available...)

David C. Ullrich

In Windows -pyTTS

http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pytts.html

Regards
Hans Georg

Mar 19 '08 #2

Duncan Booth

David C. Ullrich <du******@sprynet.comwrote:

os.system('say hello')

says 'hello'.

Is there something similar in Windows and/or Linux?
(If it's there in Linux presumably it only works if there
happens to be a speech engine available...)

Perhaps http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pytts.html ?

Or if all else fails Python can drive Microsoft's MSAGENT for speaking
animated figures.

Mar 19 '08 #3

Grant Edwards

On 2008-03-19, David C Ullrich <du******@sprynet.comwrote:

Mac OS X has text-to-speech built into the interface.
So there must be a way to access that from the command
line as well - in fact the first thing I tried worked:

os.system('say hello')

says 'hello'.

Is there something similar in Windows and/or Linux?

The only speach sythesizer I've seen on Linux boxes is festival:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

You can use os.system() to run it from the "command line" or
there are various client APIs:

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/fe...28.html#SEC126

But, it's not installed by default on any distros I've ever
used...

--
Grant

Mar 19 '08 #4

David C. Ullrich

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:41:29 -0500, David C. Ullrich
<du******@sprynet.comwrote:

>Mac OS X has text-to-speech built into the interface.
So there must be a way to access that from the command
line as well - in fact the first thing I tried worked:

os.system('say hello')

says 'hello'.

Is there something similar in Windows and/or Linux?
(If it's there in Linux presumably it only works if there
happens to be a speech engine available...)

Thanks for the replies.

>David C. Ullrich

David C. Ullrich

Mar 20 '08 #5