espeak(1) [centos man page]

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)