eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
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eSpeak NG - Documentation

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Usage

Languages

Voice Files

Voice files specify a language and other characteristics of a voice.

Mbrola Voices

eSpeak NG can be used as a front-end for Mbrola diphone voices.

Pronunciation Dictionary

Adding a Language

How to add or improve a language.

Phonemes

The list of phoneme mnemonics for English, for use in the Pronunciation Dictionary.

Phoneme Tables

The tables of the phonemes used by each language, with their properties and sound production.

Intonation

Different intonation “tunes” may be defined for different languages for clauses which end in full-stop, comma, question-mark, and exclamation-mark.

eSpeak NG Library API

API definition and header file for a shared library version of eSpeak NG.

Markup tags

SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) and HTML tags recognized by eSpeak NG.

The espeakedit program

GUI software to edit vowel files and to compile the phoneme data for use by eSpeak NG. See also Espeakedit user interface.