Festival - Text to Speech Synthesis Software

Festival is a fun text to speech sysnthesis software. You can make LINUX greet you or your users. Users will be rather intrigued....Ha Ha

Step 1: Install Festival
# yum install festival

Step 2: Make Festival talk from the keyboard
# echo "Hello World." festival --tts

Step 3: Make Festival talk from the text file
# festival --tts filename.txt

Interesting Tutorials

• "Festival: Linux Text-To-Speech Tutorial and Demo" by Xeno Cafe
• The Festival Speech Synthesis System (Offical Website)