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ESPEAK(1) General Commands Manual ESPEAK(1)

NAME

espeak - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer.

SYNOPSIS

espeak [options] [<words>]

DESCRIPTION

espeak is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages.

OPTIONS

Show summary of options.
Prints the espeak library version and the location of the espeak voice data.
Text file to speak
Read text input from stdin instead of a file
Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with -x)
Amplitude, 0 to 200, default is 100
Word gap. Pause between words, units of 10mS at the default speed
Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals", higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).
Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider lines less than this length as and-of-clause
Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50
Speed in words per minute, default is 160
Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices
Write output to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly
Input text encoding, 1=UTF8, 2=8 bit, 4=16 bit
Indicates that the text contains SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) tags or other XML tags. Those SSML tags which are supported are interpreted. Other tags, including HTML, are ignored, except that some HTML tags such as <hr> <h2> and <li> ensure a break in the speech.
Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout
Write phonemes mnemonics and translation trace to stdout. If rules files have been built with --compile=debug, line numbers will also be displayed.
No final sentence pause at the end of the text
Write speech output to stdout
Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the current directory. =<voice name> is optional and specifies which language
Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the current directory as above, but include line numbers, that get shown when -X is used.
Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet. --ipa=1 Use ties, --ipa=2 Use ZWJ, --ipa=3 Separate with _
Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data directory
Write mbrola phoneme data (.pho) to stdout or to the file in --phonout
Write output from -x -X commands and mbrola phoneme data to this file
Speak the names of punctuation characters during speaking. If =<characters> is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.
Lists the available voices. If =<language code> is present then only those voices which are suitable for that language are listed.
lists the voices in the specified subdirectory.

AUTHOR

eSpeak was written by Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@jsd.clara.co.uk>. The webpage for this package can be found at http://espeak.sourceforge.net/.

This manual page was written by Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).

August 6, 2010