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| The [eSpeak Text-to-Speech](http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) program is an open | |||||
| source speech synthesizer that supports over 70 languages. It uses spectral | |||||
| formant synthesis by default which sounds robotic, but can be configured to | |||||
| use Klatt formant synthesis or MBROLA to give it a more natural sound. | |||||
| This is a mirror of the eSpeak sources with the following improvements on the | This is a mirror of the eSpeak sources with the following improvements on the | ||||
| *master* branch: | *master* branch: | ||||
| 1. An autotools-based build system that supports building the phoneme data and | 1. An autotools-based build system that supports building the phoneme data and | ||||
| language dictionaries from source. | |||||
| language dictionaries from source on POSIX systems. | |||||
| 2. Detection of the supported audio APIs via the `configure` script — no need to | 2. Detection of the supported audio APIs via the `configure` script — no need to | ||||
| modify the build files. | modify the build files. |