Using the festivaltts4r gem

Installation

• apt-get install festival lame
• gem install festivaltt4r

Usage

require 'festivaltts4r'

"I'm talking".to_speech
"I'm talking".to_mp3 'talking.mp3'

Output:

Listen to the talking.mp3 file

Resources

• festivaltts4r[rubygems.org]
• Spejman On Rails[blogspot.co.uk]
• Festival TTS for Ruby - Make your Ruby Strings talk![rubyforge.org]

See also

• Introducing the espeak-ruby gem