pico2wave

Convert text to speech

$ pico2wave -w [output.wav] "[text to speak]"

$ pico2wave -l [en-US] -w [output.wav] "[Hello world]"

$ pico2wave -l fr-FR -w [output.wav] "[Bonjour le monde]"

$ pico2wave -w /dev/stdout "[text]" | aplay

pico2wave [options] -w wavfile text

pico2wave is a text-to-speech synthesizer using the SVOX Pico engine. It converts text to a WAV audio file, supporting multiple languages.

-w, --wave file

Output WAV file (required).

Language code.

pico2wave -w hello.wav "Hello, how are you?"

pico2wave -l de-DE -w german.wav "Guten Tag"

pico2wave -w /tmp/speech.wav "Hello" && aplay /tmp/speech.wav

pico2wave -w output.wav "$(cat text.txt)"

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# 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.

# SEE ALSO

espeak(1), festival(1), aplay(1), sox(1)