TALKING LINUX MACHINE... (tested in Ubuntu)

Hello,

You can play with your linux machine. It can talk for you what you want. May be   you know the Linux utility espeak. It can be used to listen the voice as we want. if you type espeak "hi buddy " , in the terminal your computer will speak it.

Another funny thing you can do it with it...! if you append the following code to the espeak "Thanks for login"  to .bash_login inside your home directory( /home/your_name/.bash_logout). Then whenever you login via terminal(not GUI), it will speak like that.

Also you can add espeak "Open terminal" or any message you want it to /home/your_name/.bashrc file. Next see the result while opening new terminal.

However there various place that you can add it and make your Linux machine talk............!