The GNOME Speech gives a simple general API for producing text-to-speech output. Multiple backends are supported by the GNOME Speech library, but currently only the Festival backend is enabled in this package; the other backends require either Java or proprietary software.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-speech/0.3/gnome-speech-0.3.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-speech/0.3/gnome-speech-0.3.2.tar.bz2
Download size: 220 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 4.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.10 SBU
GTK-Doc-1.2, J2SDK-1.4.2, Festival, FreeTTS, ViaVoice, Eloquence, DECTalk and Theta
Install GNOME Speech by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` &&
make &&
make install
The GNOME Speech package contains festival-synthesis-driver, test-speech and libgnomespeech.