eSpeak Text to Speech engine for English and several other languages
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Text to Speech engine for English and several other languages eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages. eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis method from other open source TTS engines, and sounds quite different.eSpeak works on the following platforms: Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Here are some key features of "eSpeak": · Includes different Voices, whose characteristics can be altered. · Can produce speech output as a WAV file. · SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) is supported (not complete), and also HTML. · Compact size. The program and its data, including several languages, totals about 700 kbytes. · Can translate text to phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end for another speech synthesis engine. · Potential for other languages. Several are included in varying stages of progress. Help from native speakers for these or other languages is welcomed. · Development tools available for producing and tuning phoneme data. · Written in C++. What's New in This Release: · Mbrola voices: Fix errors in translation to mbrola phonemes for Spanish and some other mbrola voices.

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