How to build espeak-ng on Mac

(I assume you have already installed HomeBrew.)

1. Download source code

2. run ./confugre

$ ./configure

configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." "./.." "./../.."

espeak-ng links are point to /usr/share，but home brew install those files in /usr/local/share。So we need to fix the link paths.

 

~/code/espeak-ng/m4$ ln -sf /usr/local/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4 

~/code/espeak-ng/m4$ ln -sf /usr/local/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4 

~/code/espeak-ng/m4$ ln -sf /usr/local/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4 

~/code/espeak-ng/m4$ ln -sf /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 

~/code/espeak-ng/m4$ ln -sf /usr/local/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4

We can simply run this: 

glibtoolize -c

3. build

 

$ ./autogen

$ ./configure

$ make

$ sudo make install

4. test

 

espeak-ng 'hello' // no sound

espeak-ng 'hello' -w demo.wav && play demo.wav // works 

To play sound with espeak-ng directly, please refer to  https://github.com/hgneng/ekho/issues/37#issuecomment-751125972

To install extra dictionary, we can try this:

./configure --with-extdict-zh --with-extdict-zhy