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I make videos or at times translate videos to local languages. Currently, I record using Audacity and simply export as mp3. It is a bit difficult to make my voice sound better in Audacity. Is there any software which can give a predefined male voice (or female) which is of professional sound quality. I translate these videos for free of cost to help local users understand about computers and gadgets. It will be nice if you can give a helping hand. Thanks.

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You can use text2wave that comes with festival for the purpose.

To install festival, open a terminal and type

sudo apt-get install festival

Now open a terminal and type, 

text2wave -o ./filename.wav ./filename.txt

Where ./filename.wav is the file where converted audio will be saved and ./filename.txt is the file from which text is taken.You can also use pdfs.

You can also pipe the output of some command to text2wave. For example

echo "This is some text"|text2wave -o ./filename.wav

The output may not be as good as you expect, so to increase the quality of voices, follow this tutorial on ubuntu forums.

NOTE: There is an simple yet excellent tool called spd-say preinstalled in Ubuntu. The problem is that it only outputs to audio device and not a file.

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  • I am afraid text to speech won't work for me as I make some in regional languages as well. Also, I deal with tech terms like Android, Gwibber etc, so text to speech may make it worse. I have WINE, will I be able to use one of the pre defined voice software on Ubuntu. Any good free ones you can suggest ? I just need one simple and decent output. Thanks by the way. – user227495 Apr 06 '14 at 16:46