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Package: espeak (1.40.02-2)

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.

It works well as a "Talker" with the KDE text to speech system (KTTS), as an alternative to Festival for example. As such, it can speak text which has been selected into the clipboard, or directly from the Konquerer browser or the Kate editor. 

  * 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

Other Packages Related to espeak

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  • 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 (>= 2.5-5) [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)
    A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: shared library
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) [not hppa, hurd-i386, m68k]
    GCC support library
    dep: libgcc1 (>= 4.2.1) [hurd-i386]
  • dep: libgcc2 (>= 4.2.1) [m68k]
    Package not available
  • dep: libgcc4 (>= 4.1.1) [hppa]
    GCC support library
  • dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1)
    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
  • dep: libunwind7 (>= 0.98.5-6) [ia64]
    A library to determine the call-chain of a program - runtime

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alpha 66.5 kB248 kB [list of files]
amd64 65.7 kB244 kB [list of files]
armel 65.2 kB244 kB [list of files]
hppa 65.8 kB244 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 65.2 kB244 kB [list of files]
i386 65.8 kB244 kB [list of files]
ia64 67.9 kB252 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 64.4 kB240 kB [list of files]
mips 65.7 kB244 kB [list of files]
mipsel 65.7 kB244 kB [list of files]
powerpc 68.7 kB248 kB [list of files]
s390 65.9 kB244 kB [list of files]
sparc 65.7 kB244 kB [list of files]