eSpeak is a compact open source Linux and Windows speech synthesizer for English and other languages. eSpeak uses a “formant synthesis” method. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear, and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers which are based on human speech recordings.
eSpeak is available as:
- A command line program (Linux and Windows) to speak text from a file or from stdin.
- A shared library version for use by other programs. (On Windows this is a DLL).
- A SAPI5 version for Windows, so it can be used with screen-readers and other programs that support the Windows SAPI5 interface.
- eSpeak has been ported to other platforms, including Android, Mac OSX and Solaris.
Category Archives: Freeware
Squash ~ Learning Music Player
Squash is a C / Ncurses based Unix music player. It supports mp3, ogg and flac through libraries. Squash uses statistics to determine songs to play automatically. It garners this information through whether or not a song is skipped. Squash also avoids picking the same song twice. Thus Squash is like a radio station that plays the songs you like — and you don’t even have to call in requests!
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LameXP ~ Multi-Format Audio Encoder Front-end
LameXP is a free multi-format audio file converter that supports a variety of output formats, including MP3, AAC/MP4, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, as well as FLAC, and an even higher number of input formats. It also supports batch processing and can utilize multiple processor cores.
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winLAME ~ Windows Audio Encoder
winLAME is an easy to use encoder for many audio formats, including MP3, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME uses the LAME mp3 encoder.
winLAME lets you read in audio tracks from CDs or encode audio files from your hard drive. The intuitive wizard-style user interface makes it easy to set up encoding settings. Multicore CPUs are used to parallelize encoding tasks.
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Sweep ~ Unix Audio Editor
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and mp3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins.
www.metadecks.org/software/sweep
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Levelator ~ Enhance Your Podcast
Levelator® adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better.
www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator
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bs2b ~ Bauer Stereophonic-To-Binaural Headphone DSP
A typical stereo records are being made to listen by speakers. That is a sound engineer makes the stereo mix to the adaptation of sound for listening of one channel by both ears. Therefore, you will be tired during a long time headphone listening more by a super-stereo effect than by a poor design of headphones. What’s missing in headphones is the sound going from each channel to the opposite ear, arriving a short time later for the extra distance traveled, and with a bit of high frequency roll-off for the shadowing effect of the head. And the time delay to the far ear is somewhat longer at low frequencies than at high frequencies. The Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP (bs2b) is designed to improve headphone listening of stereo audio records…
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mp3DirectCut ~ Direct mp3 Editor
mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for encoded mp3s. Without re-encoding you can directly cut, crop or split your MP3 and AAC tracks, change the volume on mp3s and much more. Direct editing saves encoding time and preserves the original audio quality of your tracks. The built in recorder creates mp3s on the fly. By using cuesheets, pause detection or autocue you can easily divide long files.
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Audio Switcher ~ Windows Device Selector
Audio Switcher is a 100% free, Open Source, application for Windows® Vista, 7, and 8.
Audio Switcher makes switching between sound devices trivial. No longer do you have to go into the Control Panel or the Windows® Sound options, instead there is an easy to access icon, or even hotkeys.
The beautiful part of Audio Switcher is it’s simplicity. It doesn’t try to do too much, it does exactly what is needed; nothing more, nothing less.
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JScript Biography ~ Foobar2000 Biography Script (Old)
There is an updated version here.
Adding scripts is one method used to extend Foobar’s abilities. Not only are there quite a few existing useful scripts, new custom scripts can be written. One great script is the Biography script which displays biography and rating information from both AllMusic and Last.FM
Script Panel:
JScript ~ github.com/marc2k3/foo_jscript_panel/releases
Script:
JScript Biography ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112913.0
The most recent version of the script is on, or near, the last page of this discussion.
- Download and unzip the newest version of the Biography script
- Download and install foo_jscript_panel
- In Foobar2000 select “Layout > Enable Layout Editing Mode”
- Add a new panel or tab to your Foobar interface
- Right click in the new area and select “Add New UI Element…”
- Select “JScript Panel” in the Utility section
- You should now see a JScript panel and “Click here to open editor.”
- Click on the panel to open the editor and click the “Tools” button and select “Import” and navigate to the biography script folder, select the script file (biography.txt) and click “Open”
- Click “Apply”, Dismiss the popup message and click “Ok”
- Disable “Layout editing mode” in the “View” menu
Forum Discussion:
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112914.msg929674
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Youlean ~ Free Loudness Meter
Youlean Loudness Meter is your ultimate free VST, VST3, AU and AAX plugin for loudness measurement.
youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter
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Denemo ~ Freeware Music Notation
Denemo is a free music notation program for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation which it typesets using the LilyPond music engraver. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer’s soundcard.
The Audio File 