Converting text to speech in linux

1. Download festival, espeak or freetts.
2. Install festival (Press Ctrl and D to exit it when it is running) or espeak.
3. A default voice is included but you can get voices from FestVox, MBROLA project, CMU Arctic or Nitech HTS.
4. Unpack them by typing for t in `ls` ; do tar xvf $t ; done.
5. Install them
   sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/festival/voices/english/
   sudo mv * /usr/share/festival/voices/english/.
6. Get a audio encoder.
7. Go to the command line.
8. In festival type (SayText "Hello and welcome to Wikihow")
9. To see a list of installed voices type (voice.list). To switch to a voice, type (voice_us2_mbrola) for example.
10. Or from the command line type echo "It's such a beautiful day! Why are you in front of the computer?" | festival --tts
11. Convert.
12. Type (quit) to quit.