<p><em><a href="Non-Sumou.html">Other GNU/Linux tips</a></em></p> <p><a href="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/">Festival</a> is a speech synthesis system for GNU/Linux.</p> <p>It has <a href="http://www.freebsoft.org/festival-czech">complete Czech output support</a>.</p> <p>As such festival-czech only processes Czech in the ISO8859-2 encoding. To enable entering Czech to be spoken from the commandline, use the following syntax:</p> <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b>$ echo &quot;Pekelně žluťoučký kůň naléhavě úpěl řezavé ďábelské ódy.&quot; ][ iconv -t ISO8859-2 -f UTF-8 ][ festival &mdash;tts &mdash;language czech</b></td></tr></table>