Epos is a language independent rule-driven Text-to-Speech (TTS) system primarily designed to serve as a research tool. Epos is (or tries to be) independent of the language processed, linguistic description method, and computing environment. It has the following features: - Czech and Slovak text to speech synthesis configuration - LPC and time domain speech synthesizers - Prosody modelling driven by rules, prosody models, and artificial neural networks - All language dependencies are defined in the configuration files, as opposed to the source code - Documentation in English included in the distribution This is a port for the development version of Epos.