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
-ffile 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.
-ainteger
Amplitude, 0 to 20, default is 10.
-ginteger
Word gap. Pause between words, units of 10 ms at the default speed.
-kinteger
Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals", higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).
-linteger
Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider lines less than this length as and-of-clause.
-pinteger
Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50.
-sinteger
Speed in words per minute, default is 160.
-vvoicename
Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices.
-wfile Write output to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly.
-b Input text is 8-bit encoding.
-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.
-q Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with -x).
-x Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout.
-X Write phonemes mnemonics and translation trace to stdout.
-z No final sentence pause at the end of the text.
--compile[=voicename]
Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the current directory. The voicename is optional and specifies which language to
use.
--ipa[=ipa]
Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet. If ipa is 1 use ties, if 2 use ZWJ, if 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.
--split=minutes
Starts a new WAV file every minutes. Used with -w.
--stdout
Write speech output to stdout.
--voices[=language]
Lists the available voices. If language is present then only those voices which are suitable for that language are listed.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
--version
Show version information.
AUTHOR
eSpeak was written by Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@jsd.clara.co.uk>. The webpage for this package can be found at http://espeak.source-
forge.net/.
This manual page was written by Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others). Several updates by
Jaroslav karvada <jskarvad@redhat.com>.
July 25, 2007 ESPEAK(1)