muflone / gespeaker

A text to speech GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed
https://www.muflone.com/gespeaker/
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Gespeaker

Description: A GTK frontend for espeak

Copyright: 2009-2021 Fabio Castelli

License: GPL-3+

Source code: https://github.com/muflone/gespeaker

Documentation: https://www.muflone.com/gespeaker

Translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/gespeaker/

Description

Gespeaker allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.

The text that has been read can also be recorded to WAV file for future listening.

Since version 0.6 it supports the speech synthesizer MBROLA for a better speech experience.

System Requirements

Installation

A distutils installation script is available to install from the sources.

To install in your system please use:

cd /path/to/folder
python3 setup.py install

To install the files in another path instead of the standard /usr prefix use:

cd /path/to/folder
python3 setup.py install --root NEW_PATH

Usage

If the application is not installed please use:

cd /path/to/folder
python3 gespeaker.py

If the application was installed simply use the gespeaker command.