Is there an equivalent of the Mac OS X "say" command in Ubuntu?

espeak should be installed by default as text-to-speech engine on Linux. You should be able to get it to speak from command-line by doing something like this: You can also start espeak by just entering itself, and then enter each line of text you want spoken followed by enter. Other TTS engines for Linux you could look at: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ http://epos.ure.cas.cz/ Espeak is available at (but should be installed by default!): http://espeak.sourceforge.net/