Text to Speech

[Eric Brunel]

Hi,

> I'm a phyton newbie... and I do not know how to start... anyone knowing
> where to find a text2speech library or some documented algorithms for
> converting a text files in phonems and to pass phonems to my avatar?

Take also a look at the MBROLA project pages @
http://festvox.org/mbrola/
Under the link "text to speech", you'll find a lot of text to speech tools 
for all platforms and OSes that may interest you.
HTH
 - eric -