           SPELL=espeak
         VERSION=1.47.07
          SOURCE=espeak-${VERSION}-source.zip
   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$SPELL/$SPELL/$SPELL-${VERSION%.*}/$SOURCE
     SOURCE_HASH=sha512:e1ee9de1b310213655f5ffd3d77872682558f896daca8a33c14d4e2f7cf5634367b0533e78ee5914b2c4685e4e40548f846f912fb3e7eed70f47b7ac1a5da45d
SOURCE_DIRECTORY=${BUILD_DIRECTORY}/espeak-${VERSION}-source
        WEB_SITE=http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
      LICENSE[0]=GPL
            DOCS="ReadMe ChangeLog ${DOCS}"
         ENTERED=20060906
        KEYWORDS="editors audio"
           SHORT="eSpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English and other languages."
cat << EOF
eSpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English and other languages.
eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis
method from other open source TTS engines, and sounds quite different. It's
perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but I find the articulation clearer and
easier to listen to for long periods.  It can run as a command line program to
speak text from a file or from stdin. A library version is also available.

Features:
* Includes different Voices, whose characteristics can be altered.
* Can produce speech output as a WAV file.
* SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) is supported (not complete), and also
HTML.
* Compact size. The program and its data, including several languages, totals
about 420 kbytes.
* Can translate text to phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end
for another speech synthesis engine.
* Potential for other languages. Several are included in varying stages of
progress. Help from native speakers for these or other languages is welcomed.
* Development tools available for producing and tuning phoneme data.
* Written in C++.
EOF
