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eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different
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synthesis method from other open source TTS engines, and sounds
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quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but
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the articulation is much clearer and easier to listen to for long
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periods.
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It can run as a command line program to speak text from a file
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or from stdin. A shared library version is also available.
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* Includes different Voices, whose characteristics can be altered.
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* Can produce speech output as a WAV file.
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* SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) is supported (not
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complete), and also HTML.
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* Compact size. The program and its data, including several
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languages, totals about 700 kbytes.
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* Can translate text to phoneme codes, so it could be adapted
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as a front end for another speech synthesis engine.
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* Potential for other languages. Several are included in varying
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stages of progress. Help from native speakers for these or
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other languages is welcomed.
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* Development tools available for producing and tuning phoneme data.
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