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<refentry id="espeak-synthesis-driver-3">

<refmeta>

<refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">22 Oct 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

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<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>Accessibility Toolkit API</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="espeak-synthesis-driver-1-name">

<refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refpurpose>build GNOME Speech driver for eSpeak synthesis engines</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="espeak-synthesis-driver-1-desc">

<title>DESCRIPTION</title>

<para>

The GNOME Speech contains a standard API for communicating with various text-to-speech engines.

It hides the differences in the implementation, API, and markups used by the various engines

by defining an API that accommodates all the standard features of most speech engines,

and some of the more obscure features supported by some engines.

</para>

<para>

And GNOME Speech driver(like freetts-synthesis-driver)implementations proxy the standard API,

which is defined in IDL, to the various commands and markup language of a particular engine(like freetts).

</para>

<para>

This commond is building GNOME Speech driver for eSpeak engine.

The GNOME Speech driver for eSpeak will be built if the eSpeak libraries are found in the standard locations.

If the eSpeak software is installed in a nonstandard location,

you can specify the root of the eSpeak installation with the --with-espeak-dir option.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="espeak-synthesis-driver-1-file">

<title>FILES</title>

<para>The following files are used by this library:

</para>

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<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/user/lib/libespeak.so</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

The eSpeak libraries are required the GNOME Speech driver for eSpeak.

</para></listitem>

</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="espeak-synthesis-driver-1-attr">

<title>ATTRIBUTES</title>

<para>See

<olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

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<colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

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<thead>

<row>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><para>Availability</para></entry>

<entry><para>gnome/speech/gnome-speech</para></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="espeak-synthesis-driver-1-also">

<title>SEE ALSO</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="espeak-synthesis-driver-1-hist">

<title>HISTORY</title>

<para>

October 17 2008:

Originally written by Yue Wang (Yue.Wang@Sun.COM).

</para>

</refsect1>

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