mespeak
espeak is, in the developers’ words, “a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.”
I cannot comment on the Windows version, but the Linux version has a command-line interface with a lot of options. So I wrote three wrappers, called, respectively, mespeak, mespeakf, and mespeaku.
mespeak, to be used as mespeak "some text":
espeak -s 150 -p 40 -v en-rp "$1" --stdout | aplay
mespeakf, to be used as mespeak file:
espeak -s 150 -p 40 -v en-rp -f $1 --stdout | aplay
mespeaku, to read a webpage as mespeak http://www.website.com:
lynx --dump $1 | sed 's/\[[^\]*]//g'| mespeak --stdin
So sorry about the sed script. It becomes rather write-only when one is matching against literal brackets.
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