sayy.sh

This script enables any debian based GNU/Linux distribution to talk! Based on Google's text to speach Android application, it gives you a few commands to ease your TTS experience on Linux.

Setup

Prerequisites

Before installing the script, you will need to install a few dependencies:

. libttspico-utils . sox . dialog . xsel

To install all them at once type the following command:

sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils sox dialog xsel

As libttspico-utils is a non-free package, it may not be available in your default packqge repositories.

Install

To start installing the script simply type:

. say.sh install

This will go through a few operations required for it to work properly:

. creation of a /home/user/bin/say directory . moving the script to newly created directory . creating and setting config file within nely created directory . adding an instruction to /gome/user/.bashrc file . reloading .bashrc file

Configuration

During setup a default configuration will be set. You still can change it using the saycfg command. This command takes 3 arguments: language, volume and speed.

Example:

This command sets language to US English, volume to 1.2 and speed to 0.8

saycfg en-US 1.2 0.8

The script supports over to 6 different languages. Volume and speed can differ from 0.5 to 1.5.

Available languages

en-GB British English

en-US US English fr-FR French de-DE Deutsch es-ES Spanish it-IT Italiam

Commands

say

Start text interpretation and reading.

Basic usage

say Hello World!

Live changing language

If default configuration language doesn't fit with a text written in different language, you can overwrite it in command call.

say it-IT Buongiorno a tutti!

Using standard input

echo "Salut tout le monde!" | say

Even using standard input, language can still be overwrittem:

echo "I love this app!" | say en-GB

saycfg

Set full configuration

saycfg es-ES 1 1

saylng

Sets current languages in configuration

saylng de-DE