How to make your computer talk to you?

Nowadays, it may be not very surprising that computers can talk ;) How to make our computer talk to us using C++? How to start without any deep knowledge about Text To Speech Synthesis (TTS), Hidden Markov Modelling (HMM) or even without any recording? This article is a short tutorial for you. You will get your first synthesized speech sooner than you think.

Ingredients:

  1. eSpeak TTS engine
  2. C++ skills and gcc compiler

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