# Working With ESpeak and Looking For a Greek Programmer

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 27-Dec-2007 20:21:19

Recently, I downloaded the ESPeak synthesizer. I was really happy because it recognises Greek, but I noticed that the pronunciation could use improving. It's difficult to put into words why, but it does. I wanted to use my own voice and basically redo that part of the synth, but I know nothing about programming, and the fact that the manual was written for Linux users only compounded the problem. There are very little accessible programs in Greek. I've always wanted to work with a Greek blind programmer so that we can alter this in one way or another, and so that I could give back to the Hellenic community. Anyway, I thought ESpeak might be a good place to start. If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know.

## Post 2 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Thursday, 27-Dec-2007 20:52:40

i guess theres an espeak mailinglist someware?
open source people are usually quite nice so they should work with you.

## Post 3 by CallMeAl (Veteran Zoner) on Thursday, 27-Dec-2007 22:09:32

Hi,
The developer of Espeak is named Jonathan Duddington . I've corresponded with him before on some technical issues, and based on that experience can attest that he is extremely responsive and easy to work with. You might try contacting him as a first step. I don't remember his email off hand, but I think you can get it from here:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net
Good luck,
--Al

## Post 4 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 27-Dec-2007 23:28:39

I did and also found him to be wonderful. But I know nothing about programming and don't really even know where to begin. I mean, I can't expect him to do all the work. I was hoping to be able to get this off the ground, that I could make some sense of the documentation but I felt like I hit a brick wall after reading it.