eSpeak 1.47.01

Developer: License / Price: Size / OS: Binary Format: Last Updated: Category: Jonathan Duddington | More programs GPL / FREE 1.1 MB / Mac OS X Universal Binary March 19th, 2013, 04:53 UTC [view history] Home / Audio

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: [ read full changelog ]

· Had wrong versions of espeak-data/phondata,phontab,phonindex files.

Via: eSpeak 1.47.01