-h Show summary of options.
--version
Prints the espeak library version and the location of the espeak
voice data.
-f
Text file to speak
--stdin
Read text input from stdin instead of a file
If neither -f nor --stdin, 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
Amplitude, 0 to 200, default is 100
-g
Word gap. Pause between words, units of 10mS at the default
speed
-k
Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals",
higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).
-l
Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider lines
less than this length as and-of-clause
-p
Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50
-s
Speed in words per minute, default is 160
-v
Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices
-w
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 sup‐
ported are interpreted. Other tags, including HTML, are ignored,
except that some HTML tags such as
and
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. = 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.
--ipa Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet.
--ipa=1 Use ties, --ipa=2 Use ZWJ, --ipa=3 Separate with _
--path=
Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data directory
--pho Write mbrola phoneme data (.pho) to stdout or to the file in
--phonout
--phonout=
Write output from -x -X commands and mbrola phoneme data to this
file
--punct=""
Speak the names of punctuation characters during speaking. If
= is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.
--voices[=]
Lists the available voices. If = is present then
only those voices which are suitable for that language are
listed.
--voices=
lists the voices in the specified subdirectory.
eSpeak was written by Jonathan Duddington . The
webpage for this package can be found at http://espeak.source‐
forge.net/.
This manual page was written by Luke Yelavich , for
the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
August 6, 2010 ESPEAK(1)