espeak (deprecated)
Disable date: 2026-11-13
Recommended replacement: espeak-ng
Install command:
brew install espeakText to speech, software speech synthesizer
https://espeak.sourceforge.net/
License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/espeak.json
Formula code: espeak.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
tahoe | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| sonoma | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ | |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 1.48.04 |
Revision: 1
Depends on:
| portaudio | 19.7.0 | Cross-platform library for audio I/O |
Conflicts with: espeak-ng (because both install `espeak` binaries)
Binaries:
espeak
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
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| Installs | 130 | 473 | 3,901 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Installs on Request | 130 | 473 | 3,900 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Build Errors | 0 |