Text to audio

 Introduction
 One day while sitting and reading a story on my laptop, it occurred to me that how awesome it would be if instead of reading all the text word by word, the computer would read it for me. Even it could generate a audio file (eg:- story.wav ) so that I could transfer it on my mobile and hear it whenever I am free without having to open my Laptop. I could use the same Audio as a dialog for my animation project.
Solution
Well, obviously, the next step was to google, search learn try then again search. There were several interesting solutions. One of them is the command called

espeak

To read a file type,( cd to the directory )

espeak <filename>

The general and simple syntax of the command is

espeak -v <voice_tone_name> -s <speed_per_minute> -f <text_file_name> -w <wave_file_name_desired>

Open a terminal, and type in the command to see/hear the magic.
For command documentation and options

espeak -h

 You can see the list of voices with

espeak --voices

This command has proved to be a great fun to me and hope you will enjoy using it too.