[R] Text to Speech In R

[C.H.]

Pizza can be ordered from R (fortune 66), why not tts?

Under Debian, I can tts by apt-get install the tts engine espeak and
then use the simple system call under R

> system("espeak", input="hello world, howdy")


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Alex Zhang <alex.zhang at ymail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Excuse me for my searching skills: I just couldn't figure out how to do any simple text to speech in R console.
>
> What I want to do is, out put simple English words or sentences to speaker as voice. No fanciness. For example, I want the R console to speak "Hello world" or "Howdy".
>
> Do you know of any related function/package? Thanks,
>
> - Alex
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