jminuscula/espeakosx

A simple Bash script to compile eSpeak on Mac OS X

espeakosx

A simple Bash script to compile eSpeak on Mac OS X

• Version: 1.0.0
• Date: 2015-10-11
• Developer: Alberto Pettarin (contact)
• License: the MIT License (MIT), see LICENSE.md

Important Note

2016-01-02: eSpeak is transitioning to eSpeak NG, which should solve the compilation issues in OS X, making this project (espeakosx) obsolete.

Usage

1. Clone this repo:

   $ git clone https://github.com/pettarin/espeakosx.git
   $ cd espeakosx

2. Download pa_stable_v19_20140130.tgz from PortAudio into the espeakosx directory.

3. Download espeak-1.48.04-source.zip from SourceForge into the espeakosx directory. (SourceForge uses mirrors and expire parameters, so I cannot download the source ZIP directly in the compile.sh script.)

4. Run the script, providing the PortAudio source TGZ file as the first argument, and the eSpeak source ZIP file as the second argument:

   $ bash compile.sh pa_stable_v19_20140130.tgz espeak-1.48.04-source.zip

5. The compiled eSpeak files will be located in /tmp/espeakosx/espeak-1.48.04-source/src/.

6. (OPTIONAL) If you installed espeak via brew (i.e., brew install espeak), you might want symlink the espeak-data directory:

   $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/espeak-data /usr/share/espeak-data

License

espeakosx is released under the MIT License.