Debian: using Festival to generate voice from text (Text To Speech/TTS) - AI TTS

folder voice

$ ls /usr/share/festival/voices/english/

Using command interpreter:

$ festival
...
festival> (voice.list)
(kal_diphone)
festival> (SayText "Hello")
#<Utterance 0x7f8747f99ef0>

festival> (quit)

Load text from file output direct to sound

$ festival --tts ./hello.txt 

Load text from file output direct to file

$ text2wave ./hello.txt -o text1.wav