# Source: espeak
# Package: espeak
# Versions: espeak (1.41.01-1), espeak (1.43-1), espeak (1.43.03-1), espeak (1.43.03-2), espeak (1.44.05-1)
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Description: A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
 eSpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other
 languages.
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 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.
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   * Includes different Voices, whose characteristics can be altered.
   * Can produce speech output as a WAV file.
   * Can translate text to phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end
     for another speech synthesis engine.
   * Potential for other languages. Rudimentary (and probably humourous)
     attempts at German and Esperanto are included.
   * Compact size. The program and its data total about 350 kbytes.
   * Written in C++.
Description-da: Et flersprogligt program for talesyntese
 eSpeak er et program for talesyntese på engelsk og nogle andre sprog.
 .
 eSpeak producerer engelsk tale i god kvalitet. Programmet bruger en anden
 syntesemetode end andre open source tekst til tale-motorer (TTS), og lyder
 meget anderledes. Det er måske ikke så naturligt eller »flydende«, men
 nogle finder udtalen tydeligere og nemmere at lytte på i lang tid.
 .
 Programmet kan køre som et program på kommandolinjen og hente tekst fra en
 fil eller fra standardind.
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  * Inkluderer forskellige stemmer, hvis karakteristika kan ændres.
  * Kan producere tale i en WAV-fil.
  * Kan oversætte tekst til phoneme-koder, så den kan tilpasses som en
    brugerflade for andre talesyntesemotorer.
  * Potentiale for andre sprog. Rudimentær (og sikkert humoristiske)
    forsøg på tysk og esperanto er inkluderet.
  * Kompakt størrelse. Programmet og dataene er samlet på omkring
    350 kbyte.
  * Skrevet i C++.

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