http://lwn.net/Articles/190364/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "The eSpeak Speech Synthesizer". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/191106/rss 2006-07-12T19:35:40+00:00 Zenith Ubuntu hopes to feature eSpeak in Edgy. I saw <a href="https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/spoken-boot">this</a> in their LaunchPad system, and <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/188905/">this LWN contributed article</a> makes mention of it as well. http://lwn.net/Articles/190640/rss 2006-07-09T00:12:16+00:00 job <p>There is also <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/">Flite</a>, a simple and small Festival-compatible system.</p><p>The same research group also has other text-to-speech tools for example for building voices, as well as the <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/">Sphinx</a> system which is quite complex.</p><p>(A quick Google search also revealed anonther research project called <a href="http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/">Mbrola</a> which had some pretty impressive singing demos.)</p> http://lwn.net/Articles/190464/rss 2006-07-07T06:04:18+00:00 jonabbey This sounds like AmigaDOS, which had a 'say' command line utility back in the day that used the speech device driver the Amiga had.<br> <p> I'm disappointed that there do not appear to be any speech samples on the eSpeak site.<br>