Espeak on Ubuntu | Text To Speech for free???

Hi there i wanna share U one thing that make us think differ. . .
How about if we convert text to voice and it can talk on our speech.
it's like google
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Yes it calls text to speech. . . there are a lot of api, software, module and on that allow us to convert text to speech.
but alot of them is not free. . .
base on that idea i will share you espeak base on Ubuntu OS
it's simple to use, easy to install and no ribet!!!

then here it's

Installation

sudo apt-get install espeak espeak-gui

Try out

espeak 'hello to everybody this fine day'
Speed
espeak -s 125 'can you understand me now?'
 slow and deliberate
espeak -s 10 'can you understand me now?'
Male and Female
 espeak -s 125 -v en+f5 'Hey, handsome. Did you just spill soda on my designer bag?'
espeak -s 125 -v en+f4 'Hey, handsome. Did you just spill soda on my designer bag?'
Robot
espeak -s 125 -v en+m3 'Oh! I thought that was a trash bag.'
The available voice files can be listed by
espeak --voices
in my case i will use indonesian voice
espeak -s 125 -v id -p 100 'merdeka'

Convert on mp3 or wave file
espeak -s 90 -v id+m3 -p 25 'Nomer urut 1 masuk ke poli dalam' --stdout | ffmpeg -i - -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192k -f mp3 /home/avro/final.wav

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