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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>
	      Speed in words per minute, default is 160

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

       -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 <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.  If
	      rules  files  have been built with --compile=debug, line numbers
	      will also be displayed.

       --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

       --path=<path>
	      Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data directory

       --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.

       -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.

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

       --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.

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).

				 July 25, 2007			     ESPEAK(1)
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