say.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 of them at once type the following command:

sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils sox dialog xsel

Warning: 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:

• creating a /home/user/bin/say directory
• moving the script to newly created directory
• creating and setting config file within newly 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 given text, 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 overwritten:

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