eSpeakup Source Tarball

[Rob]

I am working on writing up a hint for LFS (Linux from Scratch) on enabling speakup, and am now at the part where we install eSpeak and eSpeakup.
I found a download link for the old eSpeak on sourceforge. I am not using espeak-ng, because it is only available on github and you need their client to clone repositories. Since we are installing things before booting into the new system, I want to keep the number of steps as low as possible.
So is there a tarball somewhere for eSpeakup that I can just use a wget command for?
Thank you guys.

[Chris Brannon]

Post by Rob
I found a download link for the old eSpeak on sourceforge. I am not
using espeak-ng, because it is only available on github and you need
their client to clone repositories.

Not quite. You can use HTTP to get tarballs. For instance, this link
will get the current master branch for espeak-ng:
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/archive/master.tar.bz2
And you can also get released versions. Just replace master with the tag.
That being said, you cannot use espeak-ng with espeakup right now,
because of a bug that causes espeak-ng to crash if espeak_Cancel() is called
before any text has been synthesized.
Here's a link to my pull request to fix that:
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/pull/143
All that being said, espeak-ng looks to have a very bright future.

Post by Rob
So is there a tarball somewhere for eSpeakup that I can just use a wget command for?

Sure. espeakup is on GitHub, and here's the link for downloading the
most recently released version, 0.80:
https://github.com/williamh/espeakup/archive/v0.80.tar.gz

PS. One of you Arch Linux people should flag espeakup as out of date and
give them this new download URL for 0.80.

-- Chris