Espeak
Hello,
Espeak is a completely Free (GPL) text-to-speech natively speaking English:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net
Luke Yelavich maintains the Espeak packages for Ubuntu:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/espeak/
I have two questions:
* Could Debian welcome Espeak in its repository?
* Could we find persons for extending Espeak to other languages?
Now a few words about Espeak.
Here are two examples at 160 and 600 words per minute.
http://oralux.org/tmp/espeak160.wav
http://oralux.org/tmp/espeak600.wav
If you visit the Speakup mailing list, you know how this TTS is appreciated.
The author, Jonathan Duddington, welcomes new languages:
"Most of the work doesn't need any programming knowledge. Just an
understanding of the language, an awareness of its features, patience
and attention to detail."
Some languages are already offered and probably most of them need to
be improved by native speakers.
Espeak 1.16 includes:
Afrikaans, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Finnish, Italian,
Polish, Russian, Spanish, Welsh.
Cheers
Gilles
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Oralux http://oralux.org
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