A new version of the eSpeak utility for Macintosh is now available at
http://www.cucat.org/projects/espeak/
This version adds the following features:
Open and speak text, html and xml files.
Save audio in wav and aiff formats
Support for mbrola voices (see below)
Experimental support for eSpeak variants in voices
Control of speed and pitch
Tomorrow (Friday in Australia, Thursday in the U.S.) there will be
posted to the site an installer for the mbrola voices. mbrola voices
are in addition to the eSpeak voices and offer additional language as
well as the ability to generate speech in accents. For example English
text spoke with a French accent. Some of these voices are remarkably
good. The installer is big however coming in at over 200 megabytes.
While eSpeak and the mbrola voices are interesting to play with what
really needs to be done is to have these voices integrated with the
speech manager so they can be used system wide and not just by the
utility or from the command line.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
