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¶
- -h
- Show summary of options.
- -f <text file>
- Text file to speak
- --stdin
- Read text input from stdin instead of a file
- If neither -f nor --stdin, <words> are spoken, or if
none then text is spoken from stdin, each line separately.
- -q
- Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with
-x)
- -a <integer>
- Amplitude, 0 to 20, default is 10
- -l <integer>
- Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider
lines less than this length as and-of-clause
- -p <integer>
- Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50
- -s <integer>
- Speed in words per minute, default is 160
- -v <voice name>
- Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices
- -b
- Input text encoding, 1=UTF8, 2=8 bit, 4=16 bit
- -b
- Input text encoding, 1=UTF8, 2=8 bit, 4=16 bit
- -m
- 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.
- -w <wave file name>
- Write output to this WAV file, rather than speaking it
directly
- -x
- Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout
- -X
- Write phonemes mnemonics and translation trace to stdout.
If rules files have been built with --compile=debug, line numbers will
also be displayed.
- --stdout
- Write speech output to stdout
- --compile=<voice name>
- Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the
current directory. =<voice name> is optional and specifies which
language
- --path=<path>
- Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data
directory
- --phonout=<filename>
- Write output from -x -X commands and mbrola phoneme data to
this file
- --punct="<characters>"
- Speak the names of punctuation characters during speaking.
If =<characters> is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.
- -k <integer>
- Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word
"capitals", higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).
- --voices[=<language code>]
- Lists the available voices. If =<language code> is
present then only those voices which are suitable for that language are
listed.
- --compile=voicename
- Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the
current directory. =<voice name> is optional and specifies which
language
- --compile=debug
- Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the
current directory as above, but include line numbers, that get shown when
-X is used.
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).