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eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages. Thanks to B. Watson.
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eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English
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and other languages.
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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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portaudio is optional but highly recommended: To actually produce
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audio output, this package requires portaudio V19 (available on
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slackbuilds.org). Without portaudio, espeak will only be able to render
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speech to a wav file (which may still be useful to you).
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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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