I try to run the bgt, but result in the following rather impressive runtime:

A runtime error occurred.
In function: void main()
Description: Index out of bounds

Hi,
@tward: I doubt it as it's currently programmed in bgt, which is windows only. Although, if pure basic comes into play at some point here, then cross platform will rock. Same with Python.

uh stewie, that's because you have to run it from the command line.

If youa re using a version later than windows xp, find the place where you extracted your gspeak.exe file, go up one level so that you are foxcussed on the foldr, and hit shift-applications to open an extended context menu. Then you can choose open command window here. Thnn you can run the command in the readme file, so like you would type
gspeak.exe dh.100-e.100-s.100-e.100-z.100-uh.100-t.100-eh.100-s.100-t.100-uh.100-v.100-dh.100-uh.100-j.100-iy.100-s.100-p.100-iy.100-k.100-s.100-p.100-iy.100-ch.100-s.100-e.100-n.100-th.100-uh.100-s.100-aa.100-e.100-z.100-rh.100-f.100-iy.100-m.100-e.100-iy.100-ll.100-v.100-oh.105-e.105-s.105-_.100-s.100-p.100-iy.100-k.100-e.100-n.100-gg.100-dh.100-uh.100-iy.100-n.100-gg.100-ll.100-e.100-sh.100-ll.100-ae.100-n.100-gg.100-uw.95-e.95-j.95
then press enter.
After testing this it reminds me of an echo synthesizer. It's just a female version. It's pretty retro!

Hello,
Thanks a lot for your comments guys! I can barely remember who said what in this thread and I don't really feel like reading it all over again so I'll just go over the most important points:
@tward: The reason why I used bgt is because I'm not sure how to capture an undefined number of groups using RegEx. I'm trying to find that out, and once I do, I will port this to PureBasic, which will probably result on GSpeak going cross-platform.
To the people getting the runtime error: the reason for this behavior is that you are not supplying correct arguments. If you run the executable by itself, it cannot find any phoneme entries so it tries to make the synthesizer speak an empty chunk of text, which I haven't really prevented in this release. Go to the directory where gspeak.exe is located using the command line and type gspeak.exe followed by your input. Do not press enter inbetween gspeak.exe and your input or you will run the script with no arguments, which is what explorer does, which is what makes it crash.
To the one who related this to the Echo speech synthesizer, actually, there is a test line in the readme file which makes it sound a bit like an echo using the pitch functionality. I tried to design this synthesizer to make it flexible, easy to implement into applications and small, although bgt disallows me to make that last part possible.
Again, thanks a lot to all of you.

Ah, no wonder. I pressed enter between gspeak.exe and the phonemes... Thank you for clearifying. Now for my questions and suggestions: will you possibly add more voices to this synthesizer? Also will you try to make it more natural-sounding, like Eloquence, or even the at&T natural voices do? Because in this virsion, as you said, the synthesizer still has no inflections. Also, in the future version, can you possibly make something so we can type normally instead of using phonemes? Like if we type "This is a test" and ask the synth to speak, it'll say it correctly? Also, do you plan to make this available to SAPI5 because most sgames use SAPI. Just wondering.

Hi,
First and formost, well done! Even I wouldn't have the patients to do this, and I think you are a true dev for trying this.
Its actually extremely well put together for a concept. When you consider espeak could litterally say two words, hello, and test, when it was first introduced, this is a lot better than many, many of the synthesiser concepts out there. Also consider the fact he took the time to sit down, with bgt, which is a language primarily for the scripting of audio games, and write a fully fledged synthesiser that can speak? That's pritty dam impressive. Most of these things are written in c, c++ and delfi (yes delfi). He wants to write it in PureBasic? That's totally amaising!
Observations:
Instead of an out of range error, I think it might be an idea to put some sort of alert box into a final release (but that's purely nice eyecandy as it were). I know it won't stay a command line app though, and as a dll, it does need the ability to speak strings literals instead of phonetics. My advice would be, start researching this right now, or you're going to be spending more time than nessisary when it comes to creating a dll. However, keeping a phonetic approach, at least internally, sounds good. You can use minimal audio files, thus making the dll smaller. As for SAPI compliants, that's almost impossible these days. Consider the fact he's written the synth from the ground up, instead of using something like FLight or festivle. Its not impossible to get your product into SAPI compliants, though. I'm sure there are guides somewhere, I just haven't looked.
To sum up, then, all in all its a good first concept and I'm amaised at its flexibility. The phonemes are well thought out, and I'd estimate you're actually able to create most english words with them if you are clever enough. The cmd app isn't that buggy; You just have to know what you're doing with it.

Hello guys,
Is it possible to write a batch file for the synthesizer to speak something? I know we can use the command line, but can we instead write a .bat file for it? Its easier like this, imo, because you can copy-and-paste the phonemes and save it into a .bat, then launch the file and the synth will speak. Anyone can help?

Greetings. It would, in the interest of time, be somewhat easier to make a script that the executable can refer to that will launch the file. Or, one could whip up a batch file with the commands necessary to run the synth.

I'd like to help, but most of the time, I'm with other people, who don't want me saying just random stuff.

Hello,
Why does the synth sound wierd? In the readme, i used the echo" sample, but instead of sounding like "I can also sound like an echo speech synthesizer", it sounds like "Ee caan also sund jlike an ekong speech synthesizer"? If you need a batch file that i did with the synth using both the samples, just tell me and i'll try to upload it, or if i can't, i'll paste the contents of the batch file here. Anyways can you fix it or something?