.. _RefSpeakers:

Text-to-speech (speaker) back-ends
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SpeakerBase text-to-speech class
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The :class:`dragonfly.engines.engine.base.SpeakerBase` class forms the base
class for the specific text-to-speech (speaker) classes.  It defines the
stubs required and performs some of the logic necessary for Dragonfly to be
able to interact with a text-to-speech engine.

.. autoclass:: dragonfly.engines.base.SpeakerBase
   :members:


SAPI 5 text-to-speech class
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.. autoclass:: dragonfly.engines.backend_sapi5.speaker.Sapi5Speaker
   :members: speak, name


Natlink and DNS text-to-speech class
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.. autoclass:: dragonfly.engines.backend_natlink.speaker.NatlinkSpeaker
   :members: speak, name


eSpeak text-to-speech class
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.. autoclass:: dragonfly.engines.base.speaker_stdin.EspeakSpeaker
   :members: speak, name


CMU Flite text-to-speech class
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.. autoclass:: dragonfly.engines.base.speaker_stdin.FliteSpeaker
   :members: speak, name


Text fallback class
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.. autoclass:: dragonfly.engines.backend_text.speaker.TextSpeaker
   :members: speak, name