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
[tags]linux,command,speech,text,read,voice[/tags]