eSpeak – An Open Source Software Speech Synthesizer

eSpeak an open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages for Linux and Windows with compact size and clear pronunciation that speaks text files or works with the Gnome and KDE TTS systems.

How does it work is simple,  all you need is to have eSpeak installed to use it where this installer will install both eSpeak and utility programs where utility is an experimental program for speaking text with eSpeak voices that is included in the installer and can be found in your application directory.

Features

•   Can  include different voices, whose characteristics can be altered
•    Provide speech output as WAV file
•    SSML and HTML are supported
•    Compact size totally about 1.4 Mbytes
•    Used as front end to MBROLA diphone voices
•    Translate text into phoneme codes
•    Potential for other languages
•    Development tools are available for producing and tuning phonme data
•    Written in C

eSpeak is a GUI program user to prepare and compile phoneme data. Windows SAP15 and command line versions are also available. eSpeak source code comes in a “tar.age” package that can be downloaded from Lua-eSpeak project page on LuaForge. Lua-eSpeak is also available as a LuaRock where users of Lua-eSpeak can download and install Lua-eSpeak just by typing “Luarock install Lua-eSpeak”.

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