Gnome-speech provides a simple general API for producing text-to-speech (TTS) output. It also provides drivers for several TTS engines, both commercial and open source.

The gnome-speech 0.4.x release series should work on GNOME 2.16.x, GNOME 2.18.x, and GNOME 2.19.x.

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* What's changed for gnome-speech 0.4.16?
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* Fix for bug 458990 - Update max speech rate in eSpeak driver (Gilles Casse)

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* Where can I get it?
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Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-speech/0.4/gnome-speech-0.4.16.tar.bz2
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-speech/0.4/gnome-speech-0.4.16.tar.gz