# 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)
# Prioritize: 48
Description: A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
 eSpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some 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.
 .
   * 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-pt: <trans>
 O eSpeak é um software sintetizador de voz para Inglês e para outros
 idiomas.
 .
 eSpeak produz voz em inglês de boa qualidade. Usa um método de síntese
 diferente de outros motores text to speech (TTS) de código aberto. Talvez
 não seja tão natural ou "suave", mas muitos acham a articulação mais
 clara e fácil de entender ao ouvir por períodos longos.
 .
 Pode ser executado como um programa em linha de comando para ler texto a
 partir de um ficheiro ou da stdin.
 .
 <trans>

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