Simple sound playback script

Question

My laptop went down a few days ago and I lost my short sound script. I thought someone here could help me rebuild it. It was something like this:

Better post: if sound prog were "pback" the command would be

pback file[s]

#!
FILE=$1;

cat FILE | [forgotten command]

#End

Can anybody help me with the command?

I wrote an answer presenting `espeak-ng` here just to realize this is a duplicate, so I deleted my answer and posted it [there](https://askubuntu.com/a/1164515/507051) instead. — dessert, Aug 09 '19 at 08:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 09 '19 at 07:49

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I think you are looking for festival

--tts
Synthesize text in files as speech no files means read from stdin (implies no interaction by default)

echo "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." | festival --tts

edited Aug 09 '19 at 07:49

dessert

answered Aug 09 '19 at 00:17

SHawarden

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