Software Listing of Author : "Jonathan Duddington"
- eSpeak
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows. homepage eSpeak uses a &formant synthesis& method. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear, and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers which are based on human speech recordings. eSpeak is available as: A command line program (Linux and Windows) to speak text from a file or from stdin. A shared library version for use by other programs. (On Windows this is a DLL). A SAPI5 version for Windows, so it can be used with screen-readers and other programs that support the Windows SAPI5 interface. eSpeak has been ported to other platforms, including Solaris and Mac OSX. Features: Includes different Voices, whose characteristics...
- Publisher: Jonathan Duddington
- Date Released: 04-10-2012
- Download Size: 1843 KB
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- Platform: WinOther
- eSpeak for Windows
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages.
eSpeak uses a different synthesis method from other open source TTS engines, and sounds quite different.
eSpeak is perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but I find the articulation clearer and easier to listen to for long periods.
eSpeak can run as a command line program to speak text from a file or from stdin. A shared library version is also available.
eSpeak works well as a "Talker" with the KDE text to speech system (KTTS), as an alternative to Festival for example.
As such, eSpeak can speak text which has been selected into the clipboard, or directly from the Konquerer browser or the Kate editor. A Gnome Speech driver is now available.
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- Publisher: Jonathan Duddington
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- Download Size: 1832 KB
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- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista
- espeakedit
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

espeakedit is a simple and easy-to-use text-to-speech application designed to help you listen to various text files and check words' pronunciation.
With the help of espeakedit you have the possibility to improve your language skills and use different synthesis methods from other open source TTS engines.
With its intuitive interface, espeakedit enables you to load any text file you want and change the voice or the reading speed.
- Publisher: Jonathan Duddington
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- Platform: Windows 7, Windows 8, WinOther, WinVista