Russian text to speech

text2speech.sh

#!/bin/bash

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linvinus/rhvoice
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhvoice rhvoice-russian rhvoice-english aplay

set -x

# Play russian speaker voices
for speeker in aleksandr irina elena anna 
  do echo "Голос воспроизводит спикер ${speeker}" | RHVoice-client -r 0.5 -p -0.25 -s "${speeker}+CLB" | aplay
done



# Play english speaker voices
for speeker in alan clb slt 
  do echo "The voice is reproduced by the speaker ${speeker}" | RHVoice-client -r 0.5 -p -0.25 -s "${speeker}+CLB" | aplay
done

Fix repository for Ubuntu >= 20.04

echo "deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linvinus/rhvoice/ubuntu/ focal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linvinus-ubuntu-rhvoice-kinetic.list