say command, using festival and sh, that i came up with in five minutes

say

#!/bin/sh
# A very simplified version of OSX's say, using festival

# Usage: say [words]

usage="Usage: `basename $0` [-n | -f FILE | [WORDS]]"

if [ $# = 0 ]
then
    echo $usage

    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -x $(which festival) ]
then
    echo 'Could not find festival! Are you sure it is installed?'
    exit 1    
fi

case "$1" in
    -f)
	if [ -n "$2" ]
	then
	    festival -b --tts "$2"
	    exit 0
	else
	    echo $usage
	    exit 1
	fi
	;;
    -n)
	festival --tts --pipe
	exit 0
	;;
    *)
	echo "$@" | festival --tts --pipe
	exit 0
	;;
esac