Open Source C Speech Software

Open JTalk is a Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system. This software is released under the Modified BSD license.

eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.

hts_engine is software to synthesize speech waveform from HMMs trained by the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS). This software is released under the Modified BSD license.

SPTK is a suite of speech signal processing tools for UNIX environments, e.g., LPC analysis, PARCOR analysis, LSP analysis, PARCOR synthesis filter, LSP synthesis filter, vector quantization techniques, and other extended versions of them.

moonshine is an open-source automatic speech recognition toolkit optimized for fast and accurate transcription on edge devices and local environments. The project is designed to enable real-time voice applications such as live transcription, voice commands, and embedded speech interfaces without requiring heavy cloud infrastructure. Its architecture emphasizes low latency and flexible input handling, allowing audio streams of varying durations rather than relying on fixed processing windows. Moonshine supports multiple platforms including mobile, desktop, and embedded systems, and provides example projects to accelerate integration into real-world products. The toolkit also includes specialized model variants, including monolingual options that improve accuracy for specific languages. Overall, moonshine serves developers building privacy-conscious, on-device voice interfaces that demand high performance with minimal resource overhead.

a tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech

The Open VXI VoiceXML interpreter is a portable open source library that interprets the VoiceXML dialog markup language. It is designed to serve as a reference for parties interested in understanding how VoiceXML markup might be executed.

The project provides a ready-to-use interface for the julius CSR engine for a handicapped child which is not able to use the keyboard well. It integrates into X11 and Windows. Find out how you can help: http://simon-listens.org/index.php?support

Source code from the Research Institute for Signals, Systems and Computational Intelligence http://fich.unl.edu.ar/sinc

Text-to-Speech conversor for Basque and Spanish. It includes linguistic processing and built voices for the languages aforementioned. Its acoustic engine is based on hts_engine and it uses a high quality vocoder called AhoCoder. Developed by Aholab Signal Processing Laboratory: https://aholab.ehu.es/aholab/ http://aholab.ehu.es/ahocoder/

Winboard 4.5 32-bit is a free Windows accessible Chess program that works automatically with the JAWS or the free NVDA screen reader. It is for the blind, low sighted or those who can not use a mouse. It provides vocal announcements of position changes and other selectable board conditions. Blind players also use a separate "tactile chess board". Winboard 4.5 has full keyboard access to move pieces and run menu items. Partial sighted players use high contrast mode and adjust board, piece, most font sizes and colors. Available languages are English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Russian. Games may be viewed, modified or saved in standard PGN format. Two Chess engines supply play and grand master strength move analysis. Connect to the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) and play humans. Modify verbosity in screen reader configurations and in the Winboard "Sound" dialog under the "General" menu. Find all documentation in the "doc" folder under the Winboard directory of your C drive.

TTS engne for Lithuanian language synthesation based on LIEPA project (https://www.xn--ratija-ckb.lt/liepa/infrastrukturines-paslaugos/elektroninio-teksto-skaitytuvas/7563)

Speak Freely is a Cross Platform Internet telephony (Voice Chat) application which provides high quality voice grade audio with GSM and CELP compression and encryption with DES, Blowfish, and IDEA ciphers. Refering to recent news: The maintainers will never add any unwanted extra software in the zip download file but we can only speak for our selves.

Dhvani is Text-to-Speech System for Indic Languages. Current C- GNU/Linux implementation supports Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Panjabi, Tamil and Oriya.

A plugin for Teamspeak3. This plugin allows you to follow a user while he switches through channels. For the love menu just right click any name in the server view.

VoiFax is a program that manage voice/data/fax modem in the same manner of vgetty and mgetty.VoiFax is thinking for use in the small businness as in the enterprises. It is fully compatible with vgetty scripts and manage (via efax) modem fax 1.0/1.1/2.0

eSpeak text-to-speech module for Asterisk. This provides the "espeak" dialplan application, which allows you to use the eSpeak TTS Engine as a speech synthesizer in Asterisk.

eXtace is a 3D audio visualization tool (or eye candy depending on how you look at it). eXtace requires ESD (Esound) for its sound input source. It performs a FFT (fast fourier transform) on audio and displays it via various graphical modes.

To provide basic text-to-speech capability on as many platforms and for as many spoken languages as possible by formant synthesis from an International Phonetic Alphabet representation.

Advanced Speech Signal Analysis library provides a structure to handle various file formats and a variety of analysis functions commonly used in speech processing.

AhoTTS Iparrahotsa is the TTS developed at the Aholab Signal Processing Laboratory of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) for the Lapurdian dialect of Basque. This dialect is spoken at the Northern area of the Basque speaking area (French region). This project was funded by the Euroregion Aquitaine-Euskadi under grant EUSKADI-2012-004.

Text-to-Speech conversor for Basque, Spanish, Catalan, Galician and English. It includes linguistic processing and built voices for all the languages aforementioned. Its acoustic engine is based on hts_engine and it uses a high quality vocoder called AhoCoder. Developed by Aholab Signal Processing Laboratory: https://aholab.ehu.es/aholab/ http://aholab.ehu.es/ahocoder/

Arabisc is speaker independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer for Arabic language released under GNU license.It is also a collection of open source tools that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition systems for Arab

Hidden Markov Model based voice models of Austrian German for the Festival speech synthesis system.

Automatically translate english/french/german text to german/french/english text and output speech in appropriate language. All Automagically with the power of the inter-webs.