espeak-ng - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer.

       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.

                                                  December 2024                                     ESPEAK-NG(1)

espeak-ng is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages.

espeak-ng"Thisisatest"
              Speak the sentence "This is a test" using the default English voice.

       espeak-ng-fhello.txt
              Speak the contents of hello.txt using the default English voice.

       cathello.txt|espeak-ng
              Speak the contents of hello.txt using the default English voice.

       espeak-ng-xhello
              Speak the word "hello" using the default English voice, and print the phonemes that were spoken.

       espeak-ng-ven-us"[[h@'loU]]"
              Speak the phonemes "h@'loU" using the American English voice.

       espeak-ng--voices
              List all voices supported by eSpeak.

       espeak-ng--voices=en
              List all voices that speak English (en).

       espeak-ng--voices=mb
              List all voices using the MBROLA voice synthesizer.

espeak-ng - A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer.

-h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       --version
              Prints the espeak library version and the location of the espeak voice data.

       -f<textfile>
              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<voicename>
              Use  voice  file  of  this  name  from  espeak-ng-data/voices.  A  variant  can be specified using
              voice+variant, such as af+m3.

       -w<wavefilename>
              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[=<languagecode>]
              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 [options] [words]