The gnome speech library gives a simple yet general api for programs to convert text into speech, as well as speech input.

this package provides the source code required to compile a driver for the commercial dectalk software speech synthesis engine and voices from fonix (http://www.fonix.com/). upon installation, it will automatically attempt to compile and install the dectalk-synthesis-driver binary required to use gnome speech with dectalk.

this package is only useful if the dectalk engine is already installed on the system.