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
-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
--split=<minutes>
Starts a new WAV file every <minutes>. Used with -w
-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
--ipa Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet
--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.
--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).
August 18, 2010