- that would be: file -t "hello world"
$ flite --help flite: a small simple speech synthesizer version: flite-1.3-release October 2005 CMU Copyright 1999-2005, all rights reserved usage: flite TEXT/FILE [WAVEFILE] Converts text in TEXTFILE to a waveform in WAVEFILE If text contains a space the it is treated as a literal textstring and spoken, and not as a file name
flite opens some nice possibilities for notification, alarm events, and other utilities, such as talking weather reports and news headlines!