[NBLUG/talk] Re: [WLUG] Electronic format to audio

[Bill Kendrick]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:28:37PM -0700, Joe Stump wrote:
> I believe festival is the program you're looking for to convert text to 
> speech. Project Gutenberg also has a ton of audio books for free download.
> 

If one is using the KDE environment, KTTSD (KDE text to speech daemon)
and its KTTSDmgr (the KTTSD manager) are very useful.

Highlight some text, then click the little parrot-head icon in the systray,
and select "Speak clipboard."  I'm certain this can be turned into a
hotkey combo, too.

-bill!