Debian Accessibility Project
Summary
Speech Synthesis
Debian Accessibility Speech Synthesis

This metapackage will install packages which are useful for Speech Synthesis and related APIs or applications.

Description

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If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Accessibility to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Accessibility mailing list

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Debian Accessibility Speech Synthesis packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

daisy-player
??? missing short description for package daisy-player :-(
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bookworm13.0-4amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
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interfacetext-mode
roleprogram
scopeutility
soundplayer
uitoolkitncurses
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works-withaudio
works-with-formatmp3
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eflite
??? missing short description for package eflite :-(
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bullseye0.4.1-12amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
bookworm0.4.1-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
trixie0.4.1-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
forky0.4.1-14amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
sid0.4.1-14amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
Debtags of package eflite:
accessibilityspeech
roleplugin
suiteemacs
works-withaudio
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espeak
??? missing short description for package espeak :-(
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forky1.48.15+dfsg-4amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie1.48.15+dfsg-3amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bookworm1.48.15+dfsg-3amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
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interfacecommandline
roleprogram
soundspeech
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flite
??? missing short description for package flite :-(
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bullseye2.2-2amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
sid2.2-7amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
forky2.2-7amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie2.2-7amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bookworm2.2-5amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
Debtags of package flite:
accessibilityspeech
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
scopeutility
works-withaudio
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speech-dispatcher
??? missing short description for package speech-dispatcher :-(
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bookworm-backports0.12.0-5~bpo12+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bookworm0.11.4-2amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
trixie0.12.0-5amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie-backports0.12.1-3~bpo13+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
forky0.12.1-4amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bullseye0.10.2-2+deb11u2amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
sid0.12.1-4amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
Debtags of package speech-dispatcher:
accessibilityspeech
interfacedaemon
networkserver
roleprogram
works-withaudio
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The package is enhanced by the following packages: sd-multispeech
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VersionURL
0.11.5https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/speech-dispatcher/25832
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speech-tools
??? missing short description for package speech-tools :-(
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trixie2.5.0-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
sid2.5.0-14amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bullseye2.5.0-11amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
bookworm2.5.0-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
forky2.5.0-14amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
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accessibilityspeech
fieldlinguistics
interfacecommandline, text-mode
roleprogram
scopeutility
uitoolkitncurses
useplaying
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Official Debian packages with lower relevance

festvox-ru
??? missing short description for package festvox-ru :-(
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bullseye0.5+dfsg-5all
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trixie0.5+dfsg-6all
forky0.5+dfsg-6all
sid0.5+dfsg-6all
Debtags of package festvox-ru:
accessibilityspeech
culturerussian
roleapp-data
soundspeech
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 License: DFSG free
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freetts
??? missing short description for package freetts :-(
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee
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bookworm1.2.2-7all
sid1.2.2-8all
forky1.2.2-8all
trixie1.2.2-8all
bullseye1.2.2-7all
Debtags of package freetts:
accessibilityspeech
roleprogram
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saytime
??? missing short description for package saytime :-(
Maintainer: Holger Levsen
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bullseye1.0-34amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
sid1.0-37amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
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trixie1.0-36amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bookworm1.0-35amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
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accessibilityspeech
interfacecommandline
roleprogram
scopeutility
soundplayer
usetimekeeping
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sonic
??? missing short description for package sonic :-(
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trixie0.2.0-13amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
bookworm0.2.0-12amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye0.2.0-10amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
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useediting
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speech-dispatcher-festival
??? missing short description for package speech-dispatcher-festival :-(
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bookworm0.11.4-2amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye0.10.2-2+deb11u2amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
bookworm-backports0.12.0-5~bpo12+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
trixie0.12.0-5amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
trixie-backports0.12.1-3~bpo13+1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
forky0.12.1-4amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
sid0.12.1-4amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
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accessibilityspeech
rolemetapackage
works-withaudio
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Debian packages in contrib or non-free

libttspico-utils
??? missing short description for package libttspico-utils :-(
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bullseye1.0+git20130326-11 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
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trixie1.0+git20130326-14.1 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
forky1.0+git20130326-14.1 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
sid1.0+git20130326-14.1 (non-free)amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,loong64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x
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roleprogram
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mbrola
??? missing short description for package mbrola :-(
Maintainer: Samuel Thibault
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Debtags of package mbrola:
roleprogram
soundspeech
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Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

cicero
French and English Text-To-Speech for MBROLA
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VCS0.7.2-7all
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 License: free
Debian package not available
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Version: 0.7.2-7

This Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine speaks French; a preliminary English support is also offered. The engine uses context-sensitive rules to produce phonemes from the text. It relies on MBROLA to generate actual audio output from the phonemes. The TTS engine is implemented using the Python programming language.

The upstream authors have come up with this TTS to try and meet their own needs as blind users. It's designed to be plugged as output to some screen-review software, firstly with BRLTTY. They favor speed and intelligibility over perfect pronunciation. Cicero is aimed to have a quick response time, the ability to quickly shut-up and skip to another utterance, intelligibility where it counts (not perfect pronunciation), the ability to track speech progression, relative simplicity (hackability) and relative small code size.
gespeaker
GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
Responsible: Fabio Castelli (Sandro Tosi)
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VCS0.8.6-2all
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 License: GPL-2+
Debian package not available
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Version: 0.8.6-2

Gespeaker is a GTK+ frontend for eSpeak and mbrola. It allows one to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume, speed and word gap.

Since version 0.6 it can use mbrola package and voices to obtain a more realistic text reading experience.
*Popularitycontest results: number of people who use this package regularly (number of people who upgraded this package recently) out of 281767