aeiou is a web-based API for text-to-speech using the DECTalk engine. You may
recognize this particular speech-synthesis engine from various videogames and
YouTube videos.
In order to install it, you need Windows (or Wine on Linux) and a copy of DECTalk (I'm using version 4.61).
See decwav/README.md for instructions on how to build
decwav.exe, which the webserver uses to process text-to-speech requests.
Please contact me if you would like to try out the copy I am hosting.
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