pico2wave
TLDR
Convert text to speech
$ pico2wave -w [output.wav] "[text to speak]"
Specify language$ pico2wave -l [en-US] -w [output.wav] "[Hello world]"
French synthesis$ pico2wave -l fr-FR -w [output.wav] "[Bonjour le monde]"
Pipe to audio player$ pico2wave -w /dev/stdout "[text]" | aplay
SYNOPSIS
pico2wave [options] -w wavfile text
DESCRIPTION
pico2wave is a text-to-speech synthesizer using the SVOX Pico engine. It converts text to a WAV audio file, supporting multiple languages.
Small, efficient TTS suitable for embedded systems.
PARAMETERS
-w, --wave file
Output WAV file (required).-l, --lang lang
Language code.
EXAMPLES
$ # Basic synthesis
pico2wave -w hello.wav "Hello, how are you?"
# German
pico2wave -l de-DE -w german.wav "Guten Tag"
# Play directly
pico2wave -w /tmp/speech.wav "Hello" && aplay /tmp/speech.wav
# From file
pico2wave -w output.wav "$(cat text.txt)"
pico2wave -w hello.wav "Hello, how are you?"
# German
pico2wave -l de-DE -w german.wav "Guten Tag"
# Play directly
pico2wave -w /tmp/speech.wav "Hello" && aplay /tmp/speech.wav
# From file
pico2wave -w output.wav "$(cat text.txt)"
LANGUAGES
$ en-US - English (US)
en-GB - English (UK)
de-DE - German
es-ES - Spanish
fr-FR - French
it-IT - Italian
en-GB - English (UK)
de-DE - German
es-ES - Spanish
fr-FR - French
it-IT - Italian
CAVEATS
Limited language support. Output is WAV only. Part of libttspico package. Quality varies by language.
HISTORY
Pico TTS was developed by SVOX and released as open source for Android, later packaged for Linux.
