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-Development snapshots of eSpeak.
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-Taken from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html.
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+# Development snapshots of eSpeak.
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+The development snapshots are taken from [http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html](http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html).