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- The eSpeak homepage is: http://espeak.sourceforge.net
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- Compiling
- =========
-
- The src directory contains a makefile that produces:
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- 1. "libspeak.so.1.xx". (where xx is a version number)
- This is a shared library which contains the text to speech engine.
- Its API is described in the file "speak_bin.h".
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- 2. "espeak" binary. This is a small command-line program which is a front
- end to the libespeak library, which it needs.
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- 3. "speak" binary. This is a command-line program which contains the
- text to speech engine. It does not use the libespeak library.
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- When run, the "speak" and "espeak" programs expect to find the espeak-data
- directory either in the user's home directory, or if not there, in /use/share.
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- Portaudio.
- ==========
-
- The "speak" program uses the PortAudio sound interface library. There are two
- versions, V18 and V19 and their APIs are different. Some Linux distributions
- use V18 (eg. Debian, Ubuntu) others (eg. SuSe) use V19.
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- To compile to use a particular version of the PortAudio library, first copy
- either portaudio18.h or portaudio19.h to portaudio.h.
-
- If you don't need eSpeak to output sound, but only to produce WAV files,
- then you can remove or comment out the following line in speech.h.
- This will mean that eSpeak doesn't use any PortAudio functions.
- #define USE_PORTAUDIO
-
-
- Compiling Data
- ==============
-
- You can modifiy spelling-to-phoneme rules and exceptions and re-compile this
- data with the speak program (see docs/dictionary.html). In summary, edit
- the dictsource/**_rules and dictsource/**_list files and compile using:
- espeak --compile=**
- where ** is the language code (eg. en for English).
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- In order to modify the sounds or other characteristics of phonemes, or
- to add additional phonemes, another program "espeakedit" is needed. This
- is provided in a separate package.
-
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- PowerPC and Big-Endian Processors
- =================================
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- The compiled data in the espeak-data directory is not binary compatible between
- processors with different byte ordering. For a PowerPC or other big-endian
- processor use must use data which has been compiled (using espeakedit) on
- a big-endian processor.
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