#sudo apt-get install flite
zcat /usr/share/doc/flite/examples/alice.gz | fmt -t -w 1000 | sed -E 's/(\(|\)|;|:|!|`)/\1\n/g' | sed -E 's/\*|_|`//g' |\
while read line ; do 
  echo $line;  
  flite --setf int_f0_target_mean=200 --setf int_f0_target_stddev=50 --setf duration_stretch=.8  -o "play" -t "$line" 
done