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.
- --version
- Prints the espeak library version and the location of the espeak voice
data.
- -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
- --ipa
- Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet. --ipa=1
Use ties, --ipa=2 Use ZWJ, --ipa=3 Separate with _
- --path=<path>
- Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data directory
- --pho
- Write mbrola phoneme data (.pho) to stdout or to the file in
--phonout
- --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.
- --voices=<directory>
- lists the voices in the specified subdirectory.
- --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).
