# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| espeak: eSpeak (a compact open source software speech synthesizer) espeak: espeak: eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different espeak: synthesis method from other open source text to speech (TTS) engines, espeak: and sounds quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", espeak: but some find the articulation clearer and easier to listen to for espeak: long periods. It can run as a command line program to speak text from espeak: a file or from stdin. espeak: espeak: espeak: