Building And Testing The Speech Server (Emacspeak User’s Manual

Speech servers are located in the emacspeak/servers directory.

ESpeak: servers/espeak. This is a TCL script that uses a library built in servers/native-espeak/.
Dectalk: servers/dtk-exp. This is a TCL script that does not depend on any native code.
Outloud: servers/outloud or servers/32-outloud (for 64-bit machines). This is a TCL script that uses the library built in servers/linux-outloud. Note that a checkout from GitHub gives you a prebuilt library — however you will need to purchase the TTS engine from http://voxin.oralux.net.
Mac: servers/mac. This is a Python script that binds to the native Mac TTS.

Once you have picked the TTS engine to use, run the selected server script at a shell prompt, e.g. for the espeak engine, execute:

./servers/espeak

This will result in a TCL prompt. Here, you can test the TTS engine by typing

q "this is a test."
d

You should hear the TTS engine speak the text.

Type s to stop speech. You should see a TCL prompt when you execute it.

Quit this TCL session by typing C-d (an end-of-file character).