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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 (www.swig.org) interface files and can easily be extended for
other languages supported by SWIG.


License
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Speect is free and open source software. As a collection it is
distributed under a MIT license, see LICENSE for more details. See
NEWS for more details of this release.


Requirements
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To build Speect one needs CMake (http://www.cmake.org, minimum version
2.8) and a ANSI C/ISO C90 compliant compiler. See INSTALL for more
details. Python and SWIG are required for the Python bindings.