Assistance from native speakers is welcome for these, or other new languages. The eSpeak speech synthesizer supports several languages, however in many cases these are initial drafts and need more work to improve them. I prefer the sound through a domestic stereo system rather than small computer speakers, which can sound rather harsh. I regularly use eSpeak to listen to blogs and news sites.

Development tools are available for producing and tuning phoneme data.

Help from native speakers for these or other languages is welcome.

Several are included in varying stages of progress. Can translate text into phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end for another speech synthesis engine.eSpeak converts text to phonemes with pitch and length information. Can be used as a front-end to MBROLA diphone voices, see mbrola.html.The program and its data, including many languages, totals about 2 Mbytes. SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) is supported (not complete), and also HTML.Can produce speech output as a WAV file.Includes different Voices, whose characteristics can be altered.

eSpeak has been ported to other platforms, including Android, Mac OSX and Solaris.

A SAPI5 version for Windows, so it can be used with screen-readers and other programs that support the Windows SAPI5 interface.

A shared library version for use by other programs.

A command line program (Linux and Windows) to speak text from a file or from stdin.

The speech is clear, and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers which are based on human speech recordings. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. (email) jonsd at users dot ĭownload eSpeak Sourceforge page Forum Mailing listĮSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.ĮSpeak uses a 'formant synthesis' method.

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