Text to speech with linux.

Ever wanted to get your computer to talk. This might be real important in an emergency if you can not talk. It is so easy to do this.

Update: Added a section to read a text file.

Note: There is a gui for Festival, but I have not found a use for it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/carnival/files/

Step 1 Install needed software

You will need the speech synthesis and the gui prompt software. (This is for Debian based distros)

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install festival zenity

Note: you need to have a working sound card and speakers of some kind obviously.