Open Source Python Text to Speech Software for Linux

AarTon is an automated text-to-speech application. It allows user to enter text in a web-based front-end and render these texts via a multi-channel sound card.

Speect is a multilingual TTS system. It offers a full text-to-speech system with various API's, as well as an environment for research and development of TTS systems and voices. It is written in ANSI C and uses a plug-in mechanism for extensions. Speect also includes an extensive set of Python bindings for quick implementation of new ideas, these bindings are derived from SWIG interface files and can easily be extended for other languages supported by SWIG. Speect is free and open source software. As a collection it is distributed under a MIT license.

Steel is a cross-platform package for using common text-to-speech (speech synthesis) engines in Python. Steel currently supports the following TTS software: - Microsoft Speech API 5 (SAPI5) - eSpeak - NS Speech Synthesis - FreeTTS Documentation: http://sourceforge.net/p/steeltts/wiki/ Bug Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/steeltts/tickets/ If you are interested in contributing to the Steel TTS codebase, or would like to make a feature-request, please contact the lead developer, Jasper Danielson, at jrd4@rice.edu.