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.

       --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 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 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
              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

       -w <wave file name>
              Write output to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly

       -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.

       -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. =<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.

       --ipa  Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet. --ipa=1 Use ties, --ipa=2 Use ZWJ,
              --ipa=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.

       --voices[=<language code>]
              Lists  the  available  voices.  If  =<language  code>  is present then only those voices which are
              suitable for that language are listed.

       --voices=<directory>
              lists the voices in the specified subdirectory.

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 6, 2010                                        ESPEAK(1)