Listen to Text and Instant Messages with Gespeaker 'Text To Speech' Utility

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"Gespeaker 'Text to Speech' utility is a GTK+ frontend for Espeak , that allows you to listen to text in many different languages. The utility also allows you to listen received messages from Empathy and others instant messengers.

"The features include:

* Support for many languages
* Settings for voice, pitch, volume, speed and word gap
* The text played can be recorded to WAV file
* Works well with Gnome, XFCE, LXDE environments
* Plugins for aMSN, Kopete, Emesene, Pidgin, Empathy messenger
* Eight male voice and five female voice variants

"How to use it:"

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