A root password is configured on your machine and internet connection.eSpeak is built on the eCAVE project which was based on X-SPEAK, eCAVE was rewritten in C++ and that version requires at least Ubuntu 12.04 to run properly. A Ubuntu server or desktop, eSpeak needs at least Ubuntu 12.04 or later to be installed on it.This article covers the installation of eSpeak on Ubuntu 20.04 which is the most used and popular Linux distribution. The latest version of eSpeak at the time of writing is 1.48.03 while new versions are being released regularly which shouldn’t harm anything unless they break backward compatibility or introduce any bugs which should be fixed immediately. Some Ubuntu-based distributions such as Linux Mint and Elementary use eSpeak by default but some other Ubuntu-based distributions don’t install eSpeak, so you might want to check out this guide if eSpeak didn’t get installed with your system. It needs only 5Mb of RAM to run smoothly. eSpeak is a very lightweight program, eSpeak doesn’t need much CPU. eSpeak was developed by Paul “Joe” Hazeldine based on the eCAVE project’s codebase, which was itself derived from X-SPEAK 1.0 by Bill Berry in 1995- making eSpeak over 20 years old!ĮSpeak is a portable software, which means, eSpeak can be moved from one computer to another. Record yourself reading some text and upload your recordings to VoxForge.ESpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, eSpeak is a free and open-source software (FOSS) that can be run on most platforms including Linux, Windows and MacOS. Large corpora best suited to building good acoustic models) must be Although there are aįew instances of small FOSS speech corpora that could be used toĬreate acoustic models, the vast majority of corpora (especially The reason for this is that Free and Open Source ('FOSS') projects areĬorpora with restrictive licensing. the speechĬorpus) used to create the acoustic model. They do not give you access to the speechĪudio and transcriptions (i.e. (or Speech-to-Text) engines are closed source. Most acoustic models used by 'Open Source' speech recognition With Open Source speech recognition engines such as CMU Sphinx, ISIP, Julius ( github) and HTK (note: HTK has distribution restrictions).

Make available all submitted audio files under the GPL license, and then 'compile' them into acoustic models for use VoxForge is an open speech dataset that was set up to collect transcribed speech for use with Free and Open Source Speech Recognition Engines (on Linux, Windows and Mac).

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