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- eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different
- synthesis method from other open source TTS engines, and sounds
- quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but
- the articulation is much 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. A shared library version is also available.
- * 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.
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