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diff --git a/accessibility/espeak/README b/accessibility/espeak/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..56692a0352 --- /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. |