The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
In addition to the default eSpeak speech synthesizer that is
used by Orca, you can use the Festival Speech Synthesis System,
which is a general purpose text-to-speech command-line tool. The
festival (version 1.96) package is installed
on your Oracle Linux 6 system by default.
You can use Festival in command mode and tts
(text-to-speech) mode. Users with impaired vision can run the
festival command with the
--tts option to render text files as speech,
as shown in the following example:
$ festival --tts path_to_text_file For up-to-date information about Festival, including detailed command-line usage and examples, run the man festival command.