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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2010-03-03 14:11:42 -0600
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eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages. Thanks to B. Watson.
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+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.