Alternatives to espeak-ng
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. espeak-ng itself: install espeak-ng.
AriaNg Native
A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, with all features of AriaNg and providing more features for desktop usage
lizard-analyzer
A simple code complexity analyser without caring about the C/C++ header files or Java imports, supports most of the popular languages
ghorg
Quickly clone or backup massive amounts of org/users repositories into one directory - Supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and more 🐇🥚
scriptisto
A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write scripts in compiled languages
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
jj
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
Ultimate Vocal Remover
GUI for a Vocal Remover that uses Deep Neural Networks
cloc
cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages
Postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, pleas
sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
git-extras
GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
Hidden Bar
An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
ncc
Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires
WhatCable
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
matterbridge
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft team
pywhat
🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
gopass
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
Mist
A Mac utility that automatically downloads macOS Firmwares / Installers
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than espeak-ng — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
espeak-ng is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.