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eSpeak

Text-to-speech engine for Android. Based on the eSpeak engine.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

eSpeak is a text-to-speech mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: read-aloud and text translation.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Text-to-speech engine for Android.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Text-to-speech engine for Android.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Can translate text into phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end for another speech synthesis engine.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

eSpeak is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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