2012-12-21 22:23:38 +01:00
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eSpeak (a compact open source software speech synthesizer)
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2010-03-03 21:11:42 +01:00
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eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis
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method from other open source text to speech (TTS) engines, and sounds
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quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but some find
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the articulation clearer and easier to listen to for long periods. It
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can run as a command line program to speak text from a file or from stdin.
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To build without portaudio support, set WAVONLY=yes in the script's
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environment.
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2012-12-21 22:23:38 +01:00
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If you get errors like this:
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bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
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...either ignore them (if espeak produces audio anyway), or comment out
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the 'pcm.headset' and 'ctl.headset' stanzas in /etc/asound.conf. This
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should only happen if your Slackware system was upgraded from an older
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version.
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