Putting my comment as an answer. An intermediate solution would be to use Finder to browse the Time Machine backups just like a regular folder. If you want to browse it in the command line, drag the folder from the Finder to the Terminal window so that you don't need to hunt through the many levels of directories that Time Machine sets up. Enjoy!
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espeak should be installed by default as text-to-speech engine on Linux.
You should be able to get it to speak from command-line by doing something like this:
You can also start espeak by just entering
espeakitself, and then enter each line of text you want spoken followed by enter.Other TTS engines for Linux you could look at:
Espeak is available at (but should be installed by default!):