Gespeaker For Linux

Gespeaker is an open source and totally free graphical software implemented in Python around the GTK+ toolkit as a graphical user interface front-end for the eSpeak speech synthesizer software.

The application has been designed from the offset to allow users to easily playback a text in multiple languages. It features settings for volume, voice, speed and pitch. Users will be able to record the read text to a WAV file, which can be listen at a later time.

The interface is quite intuitive and easy-to-use. It comes with a toolbar that lets you to quickly create a new project, open an existing one, save the current project, revert previous modifications made to a project or start the recording process.

Under the toolbar, there’s a text area where you can insert the text to play. Simply click on the the “Play” button to listen to the text inserted in the text box. Both the basic and advanced settings of the application are provided in the same window.

Users will be able to change the language (English is default), change the voice (male or female), as well as to change the pitch, volume, speed and delay of the playback.

It’s fully compatible with various open source desktop environments/window managers, including GNOME, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon and LXDE, on either Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or any other GNU/Linux distribution, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Runtime requirements include Python 2.x, eSpeak for the speaking system implementation, the librsvg library for loading SVG files, PyGTK for the graphical user interface, ALSA for the playback functionality, as well as the python-dbus-common and python2-xdg Python modules for the DBus interface and to store the application’s configuration.