eSpeak
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About eSpeak
The eSpeak engine is a small, lightweight text-to-speech (TTS) program that supports a large number of languages. It has a more robotic sounding voice than other engines due to its small size (see http://espeak.sourceforge.net/samples/raven.ogg for an example of what it sounds like). The trade-off for this somewhat harsher sound is a very responsive and resource-friendly engine with voices which remain intelligible at much higher speeds than other, more human-sounding alternatives.
This is a port of eSpeak to Android for 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and later (including Android 4.3), supporting all 79 languages and accents of eSpeak (see http://reecedunn.co.uk/espeak-for-android for the list).
It is built on the eyes-free version, fixing multiple issues found in the eyes-free version:
1. Compatibility with Android 4.3 (as of 1.47.11d);
2. Speech rate and pitch are correctly handled, so eSpeak on Android sounds like it does on the desktop;
3. Speech rate is set as words per minute
4. Pitch, base pitch and volume are configurable as percentages.
5. The eSpeak variant can be selected, including the NVDA voice variants.
6. Punctuation level and punctuation characters are configurable.
7. Languages are correctly selected (e.g. selecting Slovak and Slovenian, or selecting Cantonese Chinese);
8. Language names are correctly displayed (e.g. "Scottish English" is displayed as "English (United Kingdom, Scottish Standard English)" instead of "English (Saychelles)");
9. Accent and special characters are supported;
10. MIPS-based devices are supported;
11. Various memory leaks and crashes are fixed;
12. SSML is only processed if the SSML markup is wrapped in a tag.
13. Support for importing custom-built eSpeak dictionaries.
NOTE: When enabling eSpeak, you will get a message stating "This speech synthesis engine may be able to collect all the text that will be spoken, including personal data like passwords and credit card numbers. It comes from the eSpeak engine. Enable the use of this speech synthesis engine?". This is a standard warning issued by Android devices for accessibility software that comes from an external source.
The eSpeak engine does not collect any data in the text passed to it. All the source code to the core eSpeak engine and the Android port is available for you to verify this if you are concerned.
eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
eSpeak for Android: https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/tree/android
Any issues should be reported to https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/issues.
The flags in the feature graphic are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike by Wikipedia. The lips were designed by Jonathan Duddington. The application icon and feature graphic were designed by Reece H. Dunn.
The eSpeak source code is licensed under GPLv3+ by Jonathan Duddington.
The Android port is derived from the eyes-free port by Google under the Apache 2.0 license. Additional modifications have been made by Reece H. Dunn, also under the Apache 2.0 license.
The Unicode character handling (for correct handling of accented and non-Latin characters) is provided by the ucd-tools project by Reece H. Dunn, licensed under the GPLv3+ license. This project uses data tables generated from the Unicode Character Database (UCD) by http://unicode.org.
This is a port of eSpeak to Android for 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and later (including Android 4.3), supporting all 79 languages and accents of eSpeak (see http://reecedunn.co.uk/espeak-for-android for the list).
It is built on the eyes-free version, fixing multiple issues found in the eyes-free version:
1. Compatibility with Android 4.3 (as of 1.47.11d);
2. Speech rate and pitch are correctly handled, so eSpeak on Android sounds like it does on the desktop;
3. Speech rate is set as words per minute
4. Pitch, base pitch and volume are configurable as percentages.
5. The eSpeak variant can be selected, including the NVDA voice variants.
6. Punctuation level and punctuation characters are configurable.
7. Languages are correctly selected (e.g. selecting Slovak and Slovenian, or selecting Cantonese Chinese);
8. Language names are correctly displayed (e.g. "Scottish English" is displayed as "English (United Kingdom, Scottish Standard English)" instead of "English (Saychelles)");
9. Accent and special characters are supported;
10. MIPS-based devices are supported;
11. Various memory leaks and crashes are fixed;
12. SSML is only processed if the SSML markup is wrapped in a tag.
13. Support for importing custom-built eSpeak dictionaries.
NOTE: When enabling eSpeak, you will get a message stating "This speech synthesis engine may be able to collect all the text that will be spoken, including personal data like passwords and credit card numbers. It comes from the eSpeak engine. Enable the use of this speech synthesis engine?". This is a standard warning issued by Android devices for accessibility software that comes from an external source.
The eSpeak engine does not collect any data in the text passed to it. All the source code to the core eSpeak engine and the Android port is available for you to verify this if you are concerned.
eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
eSpeak for Android: https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/tree/android
Any issues should be reported to https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/issues.
The flags in the feature graphic are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike by Wikipedia. The lips were designed by Jonathan Duddington. The application icon and feature graphic were designed by Reece H. Dunn.
The eSpeak source code is licensed under GPLv3+ by Jonathan Duddington.
The Android port is derived from the eyes-free port by Google under the Apache 2.0 license. Additional modifications have been made by Reece H. Dunn, also under the Apache 2.0 license.
The Unicode character handling (for correct handling of accented and non-Latin characters) is provided by the ucd-tools project by Reece H. Dunn, licensed under the GPLv3+ license. This project uses data tables generated from the Unicode Character Database (UCD) by http://unicode.org.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
What's New:
* Update eSpeak to 1.48.15
* Android 6.0 support
* Various TTS Voice API fixes
* Updates to the French and Italian voices
What's New:
* Update eSpeak to 1.48.15
* Android 6.0 support
* Various TTS Voice API fixes
* Updates to the French and Italian voices
Version update eSpeak was updated to version 1.48.15
More downloads eSpeak reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
Price update Price changed from $1.60 to $1.21.
Version update eSpeak was updated to version 1.48.11
What are users saying about eSpeak
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espeek is not work in j7 6 marshmelo 6.0.1 pls concider it
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I love it. Works fine on the s4 with jb on it. Keep it up.
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Despite some of the comments, but im finding the best voice us the ones google offers for free. While they do sound a bit robotic, they sounds far less robotic than any other TTS app engine i was able to find. AND ITS FREE. Anyond comes across s9mething GOOD... please let me know! Thanks.
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Robot
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version 1.48.15 have problem with Vietnamese. When "tieng Viet" is selected, Espeak usually reads in "tieng Viet (Viet nam, Hue)" or "Tieng Viet (Viet Nam, Sai gon)". Pleae fix it.
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Espeak is not reading any emoticons. Otherwise is ok. Fix this issue please?
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It's good Tts but crashes often, please fix it
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It made me not have speech
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Crashes on LG G3 version 5.0 when choosing as default tts.
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Fast, stable and responsive
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Excellent +
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voice sounds like a robot
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Please fix Crash when Import Farsi Espeak Dictionary
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Nice job. Happy to see all the variants available in NVDA too Max being my favourite.
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Thanks very much please add feature for number proccess
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jksista 04-05-2014: Thanks for quick response. Seen Developer's suggestion. But the Three Vertical Dots are not appearing in the app downloaded to my Samsung-S3. Also how to import an eSpeak Telugu voice Dictionery from SD card is also to be suggested, still to make the app functional. jksista 28-04-2014: Farse Farse. Dont trap. App down loaded after payment. Opened but other screens as per display in Playstore are not seen to choose the supporting language. Voices installed=83, but no menu to select the language. How to activate for intended functionality? Seems incomplete development. Release updates to good rating or Refund amount.
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Please fix Crash when Import Farsi Espeak Dictionary
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La voz se oye robótica, pero es por que es 100% sintetizada. A demás la aplicación no ocupa mucho, apenas unos 7,00mb y viene con varios idiomas instalados, se pueden ajustar varios parámetros de la voz. Buen trabajo, espero que la sigan mejorando.
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Croatian, Srbian and Bosnian language does not work. Another that I tried randomly work. Please fix.
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ESpeak is my favourite TTS engine across platforms because it is fast, lightweight, multilingual and, of course, Open Source. Until this version came along, there were no functional ports for Android and most, if not all other alternatives were either lacking in stability, usability or responsiveness. This one is the ticket. ESpeak's tone will not please all, but, otherwise, it has most of what a good TTS should have, most especially to use with a screen-reader such as TalkBack. Support Open Source!
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I love it. Works fine on the s4 with jb on it. Keep it up.
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The developers are very responsible and they notice to commnets . Now i could use Persian TTS in my device.
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Please fix Crash when Import Farsi Espeak Dictionary
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Good app
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Croatian, Srbian and Bosnian language does not work. Another that I tried randomly work. Please fix.
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ESpeak is my favourite TTS engine across platforms because it is fast, lightweight, multilingual and, of course, Open Source. Until this version came along, there were no functional ports for Android and most, if not all other alternatives were either lacking in stability, usability or responsiveness. This one is the ticket. ESpeak's tone will not please all, but, otherwise, it has most of what a good TTS should have, most especially to use with a screen-reader such as TalkBack. Support Open Source!
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I love it. Works fine on the s4 with jb on it. Keep it up.
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The developers are very responsible and they notice to commnets . Now i could use Persian TTS in my device.
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This app is highly useful for me as it supports languages other than English. However, I would like to see following improvements. 1. Include emogy-support, 2. Fix the issue of crashing in Android 6 and above, 3. Improve voice quality of Bengali. Hope to give it a 5* if these issues are fixed.