As a first step, check out what is written in Appendix D of the Monet Manual 
concerning producing speech from gnuspeechsa.

gnuspeechsa is a command-line program, and you should be able to produce speech 
by entering an appropriate command, which will result in a sound file in the 
location you specify which you can play. For example, if you are in the 
directory into which gnuspeechsa has been compiled, the command would be:

./gnuspeechsa -v -c ../../data/en -p trm_param_file.txt -o do-you-happen.wav 
"Do you happen to know by chance what time it is?"

(Note that the manual has unfortunately got a misprint for this command 
example, by inserting a "\_" in gnuspeechsa.)

There's a recording on YouTube of the resulting speech output that is produced, 
repeated three times at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUrODiSkWk8&feature=youtu.be

I have also passed a copy of your email to the contributor responsible for 
gnuspeechsa. He has had to drop  participation in GNU project for now, in order 
to take time out for other things, but may be able to make some helpful 
comments which I can pass on to you.

In GNU/Linux applications users may use Gnuspeechsa for output from an 
application by using Speech-dispatcher:

YELAVICH, LUKE , JAN BUCHAL, TOMAS CERHA, HYNEK HANKE, MILAN ZAMAZAL, C.M. 
BRANNON, WILLIAM HUBBS, ANDREI KHOLODNY (undated). Speech Dispatcher, 
http://devel.freebsoft.org/speechd, accessed 2015-07-24.

Yes, the release manuals are quite technical, but the technology underlying 
synthetic speech is not simple. You can learn a lot by studying the background 
matyerial in the manuals, as well as some of the papers that are linked.

Happy hacking!

david
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http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
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On Oct 21, 2015, at 5:58 49AM, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just read about the latest release of Gnuspeech, and am eager to
> take it for a spin. I'm not a speech synthesis researcher, I just like
> to easily do text to speech with Free Software.
> 
> I found the Gnuspeech Monet Manual 0.9 and the Gnuspeech TRAcT Manual
> 0.9, but they look very dense and technical. I've got gnuspeech-sa
> compiled and installed on my Fedora Linux system, but I have no idea
> how to run it by feeding it either a .txt file or just direct input of
> text from the command line. It seems to ask for some sort of
> configuration file?
> 
> What should I do to just get it to start speaking text? Is there a
> quickstart guide or tutorial? Or maybe some preset "voices" I can pick
> from? Thanks!!
> 
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