Reece H. Dunn msclrhd@gmail.com espeak-ng/espeak-ng https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/releases.atom lucascs@protonmail.com Lucas Couto eSpeak NG is a compact formant speech synthesizer, also used as the text-to-phoneme front end of neural voices such as Piper and Kokoro. This is a temporary mirror of the ::gentoo package, pinned to the commit app-text/calibre needs for its neural Read aloud engine: no release has espeak_TextToPhonemesWithTerminator() yet. Remove it once ::gentoo ships one that does. Enables Klatt formant synthesis and implementation Builds extended Russian Dictionary file Builds extended Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) Dictionary files Adds support for mbrola voices Enable audio speed up support with media-libs/sonic