Which repo is the official one?

[DanielSWolf]

I'm confused about the Git repositories of eSpeak NG. There's rhdunn/espeak and there's espeak-ng/espeak-ng.

• Both repos appear to be maintained; both seem to have very similar code.
• Both repos have similar issues. For instance, rhdunn/espeak#98 ("XAudio2_8.dll is missing error on Windows 7") looks very similar to espeak-ng/espeak-ng#209 ("XAudio2 tries to load xaudio2_8.dll on Windows 7"). And rhdunn/espeak#94 ("add support for IPA input") looks very similar to espeak-ng/espeak-ng#539 ("IPA input").
• On first glance, the discussions on those issues appear completely redundant, as if two groups of people were maintaining the same code independently.
• Several links in the shared README file refer to espeak-ng/espeak-ng, which leads me to believe that this is the official repo. Then again, espeak-ng/espeak-ng is seems to be forked from rhdunn/espeak, which means that GitHub won't let me search code in espeak-ng/espeak-ng, telling me to go to the parent repo rhdunn/espeak instead.

I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I'm thoroughly confused!

[rishikksh20]

@DanielSWolf espeak-ng is forked from this repo (espeak) and modify speak bit to support 102 languages whereas this repo support 101.

[valdisvi]

Official repository for community is espeak-ng now. This project is its ancestor and is preserved because of registered issues in it. You can look on this project as another fork of espeak-ng project with only difference that other forks are usually childs of espeak-ng, but this project is parent of it (from GitHub point of view). As for today, eSpeak NG actually supports 106 languages and accents, but project description is not updated so regularly on GitHub to reflect this number. (You can check this with command espeak-ng --voices).

[bripmccann]

Explaining this in the repo description and readme would be really helpful.

Between these two repos and the original SourceForge page, finding the right place wasn't easy for me, looking into the project for the first time. This looks like an actively maintained repo, and there's no explanation otherwise on the main page.

The link to the eSpeak for Android page alongside the description is confusing too. (The reference to espeak-general@lists.sourceforge.net on that page was especially confusing.)

[valdisvi]

With help from Reece and GitHub technical support, inheritance of both projects are now reordered that https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/ is now upstream project, but https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/ is one of its forks.