Talk:ESpeak

Google Translate
For languages not listed in the updated voices, Google Translate still uses eSpeak. For example, Afrikaans and Armenian are still using eSpeak, while Hungarian and Danish are using the updated (non-eSpeak) TTS voices. Rhdunn (talk) 09:35, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Unexplained COI template
I don't see any mention of a conflict on interest on this talk page. Is there any specific reason for the cleanup tag that you added to this article? Jarble (talk) 07:49, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Focus on eSpeak, not eSpeakNG

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Please update the article accordingly &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:41, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

ESpeakNG → eSpeak – Several independent sources seem to establish the notability of eSpeak, but the only links referencing eSpeakNG seem to be from its developers. Languorrises (talk) 22:39, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


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It seems to me that there has only ever been one project, with several changes in maintainers, homepage, names, etc., without significant phases of parallel development of separate projects with different paths: eSpeakNG seems to be the one and only continuation of Speak/eSpeak, approved by the original author.--Reseletti (talk) 12:12, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Quality comparison
Generally, I expect the best Free Software programs to be of similar quality to good proprietary programs. But when I tried espeak-ng, I was disagreeably surprised by the poor quality of generated English speech. I remember hearing output from a Digital Equipment Corporation product in the mid-1980s that produced better-quality English speech (more natural-sounding) than espeak-ng produces in 2022 (on a vastly more powerful computer). I think some comment about this needs to be made in the article, maybe to the effect that this espeak-ng is not meant to be a production program. I'm unfamiliar with how Wikipedia deals with this, so leave it to others to consider. Insulation2 (talk) 18:22, 4 February 2022 (UTC)