From c3e85e72a79b3cddadd6b2d1ec5903ebc05d92a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "B. Watson" Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:11:42 -0600 Subject: accessibility/espeak: Added. eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages. Thanks to B. Watson. --- accessibility/espeak/README | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 accessibility/espeak/README (limited to 'accessibility/espeak/README') diff --git a/accessibility/espeak/README b/accessibility/espeak/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..56692a035289e --- /dev/null +++ b/accessibility/espeak/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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 text to speech (TTS) engines, and sounds +quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but some find +the articulation 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. + +portaudio is optional but highly recommended: To actually produce +audio output, this package requires portaudio V19 (available on +slackbuilds.org). Without portaudio, espeak will only be able to render +speech to a wav file (which may still be useful to you). + +To build without portaudio support, set WAVONLY=yes in the script's +environment. -- cgit v1.2.3