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Package: espeak (1.41.01-1 and others)

A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer

eSpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages.

eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis method from other open source text to speech (TTS) engines, and sounds quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but some find the articulation clearer and easier to listen to for long periods.

It can run as a command line program to speak text from a file or from stdin. 

  * Includes different Voices, whose characteristics can be altered.
  * Can produce speech output as a WAV file.
  * Can translate text to phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end
    for another speech synthesis engine.
  * Potential for other languages. Rudimentary (and probably humourous)
    attempts at German and Esperanto are included.
  * Compact size. The program and its data total about 350 kbytes.
  * Written in C++.

Tags: Implemented in: C++, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Sound and Music: Speech Synthesis, Works with: Audio

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  • dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.3) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.1-udeb
  • dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.9) [hurd-i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.1) [i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.2) [hppa, mips, mipsel]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.2.5) [amd64]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5) [avr32]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-5) [m68k]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.2) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
    dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.4) [alpha]
  • dep: libespeak1 (>= 1.40.02) [m68k]
    A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: shared library
    dep: libespeak1 (>= 1.41.01) [not m68k]
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) [not avr32, hppa, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k]
    GCC support library
    dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1) [avr32]
    dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.4) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
    dep: libgcc1 (>= 4.2.1) [hurd-i386]
  • dep: libgcc2 (>= 4.2.1) [m68k]
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  • dep: libgcc4 (>= 4.1.1) [hppa]
    GCC support library
  • dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) [not avr32, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
    dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1) [avr32]
    dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.4) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
  • dep: libunwind7 (>= 0.98.5-6) [ia64]
    A library to determine the call-chain of a program - runtime

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Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 1.41.01-1 67.0 kB248 kB [list of files]
amd64 1.41.01-1 66.5 kB248 kB [list of files]
armel 1.41.01-1 65.9 kB244 kB [list of files]
avr32 (unofficial port) 1.41.01-1 65.5 kB240 kB [list of files]
hppa 1.41.01-1 67.0 kB244 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 1.41.01-1 65.8 kB244 kB [list of files]
i386 1.41.01-1 66.4 kB244 kB [list of files]
ia64 1.41.01-1 68.5 kB252 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 1.41.01-1 66.5 kB202 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 1.41.01-1 65.8 kB198 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 1.40.02-2 64.4 kB240 kB [list of files]
mips 1.41.01-1 66.4 kB244 kB [list of files]
mipsel 1.41.01-1 66.2 kB244 kB [list of files]
powerpc 1.41.01-1 69.4 kB248 kB [list of files]
s390 1.41.01-1 66.4 kB244 kB [list of files]
sparc 1.41.01-1 66.7 kB244 kB [list of files]