1ESPEAK(1)                   General Commands Manual                  ESPEAK(1)
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NAME

6       espeak - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer.
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SYNOPSIS

9       espeak [options] [<words>]
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DESCRIPTION

12       espeak  is  a  software  speech synthesizer for English, and some other
13       languages.
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OPTIONS

16       -h     Show summary of options.
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18       -f <text file>
19              Text file to speak
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21       --stdin
22              Read text input from stdin instead of a file
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24       If neither -f nor --stdin, <words> are spoken, or if none then text  is
25       spoken from stdin, each line separately.
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27       -q     Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with -x)
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29       -a <integer>
30              Amplitude, 0 to 20, default is 10
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32       -l <integer>
33              Line  length. If not zero (which is the default), consider lines
34              less than this length as and-of-clause
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36       -p <integer>
37              Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50
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39       -s <integer>
40              Speed in words per minute, default is 160
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42       -v <voice name>
43              Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices
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45       -b     Input text is 8-bit encoding
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47       -m     Indicates that the text contains SSML (Speech  Synthesis  Markup
48              Language) tags or other XML tags. Those SSML tags which are sup‐
49              ported are interpreted. Other tags, including HTML, are ignored,
50              except  that  some HTML tags such as <hr> <h2> and <li> ensure a
51              break in the speech.
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53       -w <wave file name>
54              Write output to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly
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56       -x     Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout
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58       -X     Write phonemes mnemonics and translation  trace  to  stdout.  If
59              rules  files  have been built with --compile=debug, line numbers
60              will also be displayed.
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62       --stdout
63              Write speech output to stdout
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65       --compile=<voice name>
66              Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary  in  the  current
67              directory.  =<voice  name>  is optional and specifies which lan‐
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70       --path=<path>
71              Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data directory
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73       --phonout=<filename>
74              Write output from -x -X commands and mbrola phoneme data to this
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77       --punct="<characters>"
78              Speak  the  names  of punctuation characters during speaking. If
79              =<characters> is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.
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81       -k <integer>
82              Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the  word  "capitals",
83              higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).
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85       --voices[=<language code>]
86              Lists  the available voices. If =<language code> is present then
87              only those voices which  are  suitable  for  that  language  are
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90       --compile=voicename
91              Compile  the  pronunciation  rules and dictionary in the current
92              directory. =<voice name> is optional and  specifies  which  lan‐
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95       --compile=debug
96              Compile  the  pronunciation  rules and dictionary in the current
97              directory as above, but include line  numbers,  that  get  shown
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AUTHOR

101       eSpeak  was written by Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@jsd.clara.co.uk>. The
102       webpage  for  this  package  can  be  found  at   http://espeak.source‐
103       forge.net/.
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105       This manual page was written by Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com>, for
106       the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
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