Now that we can both get sound out of your BeagleBone Blue, let's start doing something useful with this capability. You're going to start by enabling eSpeak, an open source application that provides us with a computer voice with a bit of personality.
The great news is that here, you get a huge check of functionality for free. The program you are going to use is eSpeak, an open source voice generation application. To get this functionality, download the eSpeak library by typing sudo apt-get install espeak. Now, let's see whether your BeagleBoard Blue has a voice. Type the command espeak "hello". The speaker should emit a computer voiced hello. If it does not, make sure that the speaker is on and that its volume is high enough to hear it.
Now that you have a computer voice, you may want to customize...
