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Message-ID: <CAHfK2MtzSV=nOZCSNCdqyyOY2aEN4=R2fAwZCM_UbE+y091oPg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2012-10-05T03:53:30Z
From: C.H.
Subject: Text to Speech In R
In-Reply-To: <1349353885.10372.YahooMailNeo@web114004.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Pizza can be ordered from R (fortune 66), why not tts?

Under Debian, I can tts by apt-get install the tts engine espeak and
then use the simple system call under R

> system("espeak", input="hello world, howdy")


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Excuse me for my searching skills: I just couldn't figure out how to do any simple text to speech in R console.
>
> What I want to do is, out put simple English words or sentences to speaker as voice. No fanciness. For example, I want the R console to speak "Hello world" or "Howdy".
>
> Do you know of any related function/package? Thanks,
>
> - Alex
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