Simple sound playback script

Question

My laptop went down a few days ago and I lost my short sound script. I thought someone here could help me rebuild it. It was something like this:

Better post: if sound prog were "pback" the command would be

pback file[s]

#!
FILE=$1;

cat FILE | [forgotten command]

#End

Can anybody help me with the command?

Answer 1

I think you are looking for festival

--tts
Synthesize text in files as speech no files means read from stdin (implies no interaction by default)

echo "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." | festival --tts