Hi Daniel, If you downloaded a file with .zip extension, did you try double-clicking on it to unpack it? That's pretty standard for unpacking software distributed as .zip, which should be the first step.
I remember that Greg Kearney wrote an eSpeak installer for the Mac, and you can find this at: http://www.cucat.org/projects/espeak/ But I found that reference by searching the Mail Archive, and the post that announced that site was made in 2008!: • eSpeak for MacOS improvements http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@macvisionaries.com/msg32311.html As far as I know, eSpeak never existed as an application. You had to compile and install it, and even then you could only route items you wanted spoken with text-to-speech, such as by using a unix pipe from the Terminal command line. As Sarah remarked, it was mainly used from a Terminal interface. It's probably possible to use Automator's ability to run shell scripts to make using this from a GUI interface easier. I've never looked into using eSpeak at all, myself. Greg was mostly interested in this for the ability to add support for creating talking books in languages that still weren't supported, and didn't separately keep up with the status of the app. You're far better off starting with the current .zip file, and seeing where you get to. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 2, 2012, at 22:02, Sarah Alawami wrote: > You probably need to do some terminal work but how to get it in to the voice > over thing I would not know. lol! > > Take care. > On Jan 2, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Daniel McGee wrote: > >> Hi all, I'm not 100% sure that there is a version of it for Mac but going to >> http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html >> >> I found a Mac OSX version of it. Basically I want to install it and I don't >> know how. When downloading the file which is a .ZIP extension in there, I >> would expect to find the .app extension so I could just copy and past it >> into my apps folder but there wasn't such a thing in there. >> So if anyone knows how to do this, I would be grateful if they could give >> step by step instructions so I can do it to. Or if I'm dreaming about this >> synth being on Mac OSX then someone please put me out of my misery by >> telling me that it isn't supported. LOL >> >> Thanks >> >> Daniel <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
