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ESPEAK(1)							     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
       -h     Show summary of options.

       -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 20, default is 10

       -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>
	      peed in words per minute, default is 160

       -v <voice name>
	      Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices

       -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 <hr> <h2> and <li> ensure a
	      break in the speech.

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

       -x     Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout

       -X     Write phonemes mnemonics and translation trace to stdout

       --stdout
	      Write speech output to stdout

       --compile=<voice name>
	      Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary  in  the  current
	      directory.  =<voice  name>  is optional and specifies which lan‐
	      guage

       --punct="<characters>"
	      Speak the names of punctuation characters	 during	 speaking.  If
	      =<characters> is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.

       -k <integer>
	      Indicate	capital	 letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals",
	      higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).

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

AUTHOR
       eSpeak was written by Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@jsd.clara.co.uk>.  The
       webpage	 for  this  package  can  be  found  at	 http://espeak.source‐
       forge.net/.

       This manual page was written by Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com>, for
       the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).

				 June 23, 2006			     ESPEAK(1)
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