Text to speech with the Linux command line

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2012-11-21

I'm working on a new side-project I had the need for some text to speech functionality from a Linux command line. I found a program called Festival that seems to work pretty well. sudo apt-get install festival will get it for you on Ubuntu and

 echo "Hello, Festival" | text2wave > hello.wav; aplay hello.wav

will create a wav file named hello.wav that says "Hello, Festival" and then play it.