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 sup‐
              ported are interpreted. Other tags, including HTML, are ignored,
              except  that  some HTML tags such as 
 
 and 
 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 lan‐
              guage 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 . The
       webpage  for  this  package  can  be  found  at   http://espeak.source‐
       forge.net/.

       This manual page was written by Luke Yelavich , for
       the Ubuntu project (but may be used by  others).   Several  updates  by
       Jaroslav Škarvada .



                                 July 25, 2007                       ESPEAK(1)