espeak-ng

v0.1.2 Experimental

Pure Rust port of eSpeak NG text-to-speech

GPL-3.0-or-later Edition 2021

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Quick Verdict

✓Actively maintained (updated 63d ago)
!Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
!Heavy dependency tree (120 direct deps)

Security

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Downloads

12.3K

Dependents

Releases

Size

9.4MB

Deep Insights

📈

Strong growth momentum

8.9K downloads in the last 30 days (295/day), up 445% from the previous period.

👤

Prolific maintainer

The primary maintainer publishes 397 crates. This suggests deep Rust expertise and long-term commitment to the ecosystem.

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Heavy dependency tree

120 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

📐

Large crate size

9.4MB is relatively large. May impact download and compile times.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include kittentts, neutts, rlx-kittentts. When high-quality crates choose espeak-ng, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 15/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 10/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 4/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 5/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads · last 90 days

124/day avg+269%

Top Dependents

Most downloaded crates that depend on espeak-ng

Version Adoption

v0.1.2

81%

v0.1.0

11%

v0.1.1

Release Timeline

3 releasessince 2026

2026

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Feature Flags

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Maintainers

Eugene Hauptmann

397 crates

Dependencies

120

direct dependencies

Dependents

crates depend on espeak-ng