

'(SayText "The temperature is 22 degrees centigrade and there is a slight breeze from the west.")'

You can do it from the command line by using -b (or -batch) and putting each command into single quotes: festival -b '(voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts)' \ To make Festival sound natural, here's what to do: sudo apt-get install festivalįestival> (SayText "Don't hate me, I'm just doing my job!") You can easily surpass the pico2wave quality on stock Ubuntu, because one of those voices is available as a ready-made package. However, Festival is a scheme-based speech framework, where a number of researchers have built much better plug-in voices. The default Festival voices are also not that good. Pico and espeak are fun and easy to get to work, but they're not all that good.
