The rhasspy/espeak-ng library packaged for the Zig build system.

This build doesn't compile any of the async, audio or ucd tools and features. It is mainly used for phonemizing text.

Changes in Fork

Add espeak_TextToPhonemesWithTerminator function that allows getting phonemes with punctuation type back (see python_test.py)

add to your project:

zig fetch --save https://github.com/sweetbbak/espeak-ng-zig/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

    const espeak = b.dependency("espeak", .{
        .target = target,
        .optimize = optimize,
        .strip = true,
        .pie = true,
    });

    // link with the output artifact
    exe.linkLibrary(espeak.artifact("espeak-ng"));

    // allow the headers to be included in your project
    const espeak_include = espeak.path("include");
    exe.addIncludePath(espeak_include);

import in your executable:

// provides  encoding.h   espeak_ng.h   speak_lib.h
const c = @cImport({
    @cInclude("speak_lib.h");
});