Getting Commodore OS to speak to you

[Lessss]

There is a speech reader included in commodore OS likely from Amiga files.
What is the program name and can it be used to read files/ebooks/pdfs?

[alexndr]

There is a speech reader included in commodore OS likely from Amiga files.
What is the program name and can it be used to read files/ebooks/pdfs?

If you refer to the speech reader used by the menu option to update to latest linux kernel it seems to be called "espeak".

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espeak [options] ["<words>"]

-f <text file>   Text file to speak
--stdin    Read text input from stdin instead of a file

If neither -f nor --stdin, then <words> are spoken, or if none then text
is spoken from stdin, each line separately.

-a <integer>
	   Amplitude, 0 to 200, default is 100
-g <integer>
	   Word gap. Pause between words, units of 10mS at the default speed
-k <integer>
	   Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals",
	   higher values indicate a pitch increase (try -k20).
-l <integer>
	   Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider
	   lines less than this length as end-of-clause
-p <integer>
	   Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50
-s <integer>
	   Speed in approximate words per minute. The default is 175
-v <voice name>
	   Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices
-w <wave file name>
	   Write speech to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly
-b	   Input text encoding, 1=UTF8, 2=8 bit, 4=16 bit 
-m	   Interpret SSML markup, and ignore other < > tags
-q	   Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with -x)
-x	   Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout
-X	   Write phonemes mnemonics and translation trace to stdout
-z	   No final sentence pause at the end of the text
--compile=<voice name>
	   Compile pronunciation rules and dictionary from the current
	   directory. <voice name> specifies the language
--ipa      Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet
--path="<path>"
	   Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data directory
--pho      Write mbrola phoneme data (.pho) to stdout or to the file in --phonout
--phonout="<filename>"
	   Write phoneme output from -x -X --ipa and --pho to this file
--punct="<characters>"
	   Speak the names of punctuation characters during speaking.  If
	   =<characters> is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.
--sep=<character>
	   Separate phonemes (from -x --ipa) with <character>.
	   Default is space, z means ZWJN character.
--split=<minutes>
	   Starts a new WAV file every <minutes>.  Used with -w
--stdout   Write speech output to stdout
--tie=<character>
	   Use a tie character within multi-letter phoneme names.
	   Default is U+361, z means ZWJ character.
--version  Shows version number and date, and location of espeak-data
--voices=<language>
	   List the available voices for the specified language.
	   If <language> is omitted, then list all voices.

[alexndr]

I just added following command as "Startup application" ..

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espeak "Greetings professor Falken. Shall we play a game?"

Feels like it's a good fit.

[LeoNigro]

Try inserting a few periods in the sentence for a stilted dramatic effect.
Yeah, espeak is a linux program, and although similar, is not directly from the Amiga.
It probably sounds more like the C64 speech cartridge.

[LeoNigro]

Did you try running it with wine?
It says it runs on everything back to Xp, which makes me dubious of any special requirement that hasn't been ported by now.
(Not near a computer so I can't test it)