How to read a big text file that is tarballed - without extracting the whole thing…

bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head -10

[tags]tar,zip,bzip,text,read,wikipedia[/tags]

Festival is a speech synthesizer for Linux. You can use this with the following commands…

Enter a festival console for more operations

festival
festival> (SayText "Hello world! Isn't the weather excellent today.")

Read a file…

festival --tts hello.txt

Just read some text.

echo "Hello world! Isn't the weather excellent today." | festival --tts

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