One of my priorities at work is to reduce the offices administration overheads. Every employee has a talent and brings a skill set to the business. This experience is not used when humans are forced to waste their time logging into websites, filling in forms, formatting spreadsheets, downloading stats and doing things which can be [...]
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Command line text to speech
eSpeak is a speech synthesizer. It’s completely free and can be used from within a terminal. By default it talks a little fast so -s115 slows it down. espeak “Hello World” lynx -dump http://alexharvey.eu | espeak -s115 $1 | aplay echo “Hello World” | espeak $1 | aplay

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