espeak-ng - A multi-lingual software speech
synthesizer.
espeak-ng [options] [words]
espeak-ng is a software speech synthesizer for English, and
some other languages.
- -h, --help
- 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 till to the end of a stream at once.
If neither -f nor --stdin are provided, then <words> from
parameter are spoken, or text is spoken from stdin, read separately one line
by line at a time.
- -d <device>
- Use the specified device to speak the audio on. If not specified, the
default audio device is used.
- -q
- Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with -x).
- -a <integer>
- Amplitude, 0 to 200, default is 100.
- -g <integer>
- Word gap. Pause between words, units of 10ms at the default speed.
- -k <integer>
- Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals",
higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).
- -l <integer>
- Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider lines less than
this length as end-of-clause.
- -p <integer>
- Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50.
- -s <integer>
- Speed in words per minute, default is 175.
- -v <voice
name>
- Use voice file of this name from espeak-ng-data/voices. A variant can be
specified using voice+variant, such as af+m3.
- -w <wave file
name>
- Write output to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly.
- --split=<minutes>
- Used with -w to split the audio output into <minutes>
recorded chunks.
- -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
- -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.
- -z
- No final sentence pause at the end of the text.
- --stdout
- Write speech output to stdout.
- --compile=voicename
- Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the current directory.
=<voicename< is optional and specifies which language is
compiled.
- --compile-debug=voicename
- Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the current directory as
above, but include line numbers, that get shown when -X is used.
- --ipa
- Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet. --ipa=1
Use ties, --ipa=2 Use ZWJ, --ipa=3 Separate with _.
- --tie=<character>
- The character to use to join multi-letter phonemes in -x and --ipa
output.
- --path=<path>
- Specifies the directory containing the espeak-ng-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.
- --sep=<character>
- The character to separate phonemes from the -x and --ipa output.
- --voices[=<language
code>]
- Lists the available voices. If =<language code> is present then only
those voices which are suitable for that language are listed. If
xx-yy language code is passed, then voices with yy of
xx language variants are shown with higher priority than just
xx. If variant is passed, then all voice variants are shown.
If mb or mbrola is passed, then all voices using the MBROLA
voice synthesizer are shown. If all is passed, then all eSpeak NG
voices, voice variants and MBROLA voices are shown.
- --voices=<directory>
- Lists the voices in the specified subdirectory.
eSpeak NG is maintained by Reece H. Dunn msclrhd@gmail.com.
It is based on eSpeak by Jonathan Duddington
jonsd@jsd.clara.co.uk.
This manual page is based on the eSpeak page written by Luke
Yelavich themuso@ubuntu.com for the Ubuntu project.