Activity for eSpeak: speech synthesis

Zaklan Harlow posted a comment on discussion Help

Zaklan Harlow — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:11:57 -0000

This is a really helpful discussion, especially for people who are still learning how to use eSpeak and the setup on the command line. Once everything is properly set up, it's always interesting to see how voice files and variants work. In a related vein, I recently discovered a useful local resource for bathroom renovation San Jose, while researching home improvement topics. Could be helpful if anyone here is also balancing tech projects with some home upgrades.

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carol lawrance — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:54:25 -0000

Exploring Espeak for AI applications reveals how powerful text-to-speech tools have become. Its ability to generate clear, natural-sounding speech makes it ideal for virtual assistants, educational programs, and accessibility projects. While integrating Espeak into my workflow, I also found aitextsummarizer.net incredibly useful for condensing lengthy documents into precise summaries. Using aitextsummarizer.net summary maker alongside Espeak significantly speeds up content processing and improves...

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carol lawrance — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:49:45 -0000

eSpeak is a lightweight TTS engine that works well with AI, allowing chatbots and virtual assistants to speak responses in multiple languages efficiently.

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA modified a comment on ticket #20

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:37:00 -0000

Looks like something is missing though I am not very sure whether espeak engine works reading text message through standalone application. I have seen command line exe works for English text and speaks the text. Hence, raised this request to seek assistance/suggestion.

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA modified a comment on ticket #14

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:31:31 -0000

Jonathan -- Looks like something is missing though I am not very sure whether espeak engine works reading text message through standalone application. I have seen command line exe works for English text and speaks the text. Hence, raised this request to seek assistance/suggestion. Please suggest as we are stuck to move further.

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JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:31:06 -0000

Jonathan -- Looks like something is missing though I am not very sure whether espeak engine works reading text messge through standalone application. I have seen command line exe works for English text and speaks the text. Hence, raised this request to seek assistance/suggestion. Please suggest as we are stuck to move further.

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JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:28:45 -0000

I am working with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 (latest version on windows). Hence, I am doing a POC to support with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 running on windows. I have written one sample applications in C++ with loading Espeak DLL (espeak_sapi.dll). ). I am passing as a text message and need to speak through this engine. So, as a process of speaking, I am calling Espeak APIs like espeak_Initialize(), espeak_Synth(), espeak_SetSynthCallback() and espeak_Synchronize() as sequence of calls . All...

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JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:25:13 -0000

I am working with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 (latest version on windows). Hence, I am doing a POC to support our customer with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 running on windows. I have written one sample applications in C++ with loading Espeak DLL (espeak_sapi.dll). ). I am passing as a text message and need to speak through this engine. So, as a process of speaking, I am calling Espeak APIs like espeak_Initialize(), espeak_Synth(), espeak_SetSynthCallback() and espeak_Synchronize() as sequence...

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JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:24:21 -0000

I am working Espeak engine version 1.48.04 (latest version on windows). So, I am doing a POC to support with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 running on windows. I have written one sample applications in C++ with loading Espeak DLL (espeak_sapi.dll). ). I am passing as a text message and need to speak through this engine. So, as a process of speaking, I am calling Espeak APIs like espeak_Initialize(), espeak_Synth(), espeak_SetSynthCallback() and espeak_Synchronize() as sequence of calls . All calls...

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JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:23:38 -0000

I am working Espeak engine version 1.48.04 (latest version on windows). Hence, I am doing a POC to support with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 running on windows. I have written one sample applications in C++ with loading Espeak DLL (espeak_sapi.dll). ). I am passing as a text message and need to speak through this engine. So, as a process of speaking, I am calling Espeak APIs like espeak_Initialize(), espeak_Synth(), espeak_SetSynthCallback() and espeak_Synchronize() as sequence of calls . All calls...

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA posted a comment on ticket #14

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:31:12 -0000

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA created ticket #14

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:29:03 -0000

espeak engine was unable speak in a C/C++ application

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA posted a comment on ticket #20

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:45:17 -0000

Looks like something is missing though I am not very sure whether espeak engine works reading text messge through standalone application. I have seen command line exe works for English text and speaks the text. Hence, raised this request to seek assistance/suggestion.

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA created ticket #20

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:21:20 -0000

espeak engine was unable speak a text in a sample C/C++ application

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JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:56:30 -0000

I am working as a software developer in Diebold Nixdorf Inc. One of our customer is interested Espeak engine version 1.48.04 (latest version on windows). Hence, I am doing a POC to support our customer with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 running on windows. I have written one sample applications in C++ with loading Espeak DLL (espeak_sapi.dll). ). I am passing as a text message and need to speak through this engine. So, as a process of speaking, I am calling Espeak APIs like espeak_Initialize(), espeak_Synth(),...

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Johnny Gulowsen posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Johnny Gulowsen — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:44:42 -0000

Hello! I am a pretty technical person, but mostly IT support and server setup/hosting. I'm not much of a coder so I am unsure if i might be of any help, but I am Norwegian so if there is anything I can do I would love to help out in any way I can! Outside of that, I want to say thank you! BR Johnny

Kather Smith posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Kather Smith — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:08:16 -0000

If eSpeak audio isn’t working, make sure your system’s audio output is set correctly and that the volume isn’t muted. Also, try running it with admin rights or checking for missing audio drivers. I ran into similar issues while testing accessibility tools for Freecine, and updating my sound settings helped fix it quickly.

Kather Smith posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Kather Smith — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:21:18 -0000

If you're not hearing audio in eSpeak, make sure your system audio settings are correctly configured and that no other app is blocking the sound output. I faced a similar issue while testing accessibility features for our Las Vegas Realtors website, and updating the audio drivers solved it. Hope that helps.

Parya Pasdar posted a comment on discussion Developers

Parya Pasdar — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:11:11 -0000

hi, i didn't know it was transferred. thanks for your help.

Shadyar Khodayari posted a comment on discussion Developers

Shadyar Khodayari — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:15:56 -0000

@Parya @parham The ISPIK project has been transferred to the Git-hub for years to the address below and the project name to ESPEAK NG. Refer to this address to get and participate in the ISPIK project code. Many versions of ISPIC have been released in recent years, including updates to Persian, most of changes and improvements of Persian has been done by myself. https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng @Parya Please add the file you have changed to the new project. E-Speak for Android is available,...

Parya Pasdar posted a comment on discussion Developers

Parya Pasdar — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:15:20 -0000

ok thanks for your help

Parham Doustdar posted a comment on discussion Developers

Parham Doustdar — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:06:50 -0000

I haven’t been using Android for more than 8 years now, so please take this with a grain of salt, but I’m not aware of anything that is as fast and as accurate as eSpeak at reading Farsi, and sounds better. On 28 Apr 2025, at 09:58, Parya Pasdar parya-pasdar@users.sourceforge.net wrote: thanks for the reply. do u have any recommendations for a good farsi speaking text to speech app i can use with androids accessibility? i noticed the last posts on this thread were from 2013 so i thought there would...

Parya Pasdar posted a comment on discussion Developers

Parya Pasdar — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:58:23 -0000

thanks for the reply. do u have any recommendations for a good farsi speaking text to speech app i can use with androids accessibility? i noticed the last posts on this thread were from 2013 so i thought there would be better versions of tts by now but i couldnt find any and after asking a few people, i realized most of them are using espeak, so i thought we could make it better (بهبودش بدیم).

Parham Doustdar posted a comment on discussion Developers

Parham Doustdar — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:03:59 -0000

Unfortunately not — the voice you hear is the voice of eSpeak, and not really controlable through Farsi rule files.Sent from my iPhoneOn 27 Apr 2025, at 17:02, Parya Pasdar wrote:hey is there anyway we can make the voice sound less robotic? the farsi is hard to understand and i think this is the main app irani ppl use for accessibility on android. @shadyar Farsi language Sent from sourceforge.net...

Parya Pasdar posted a comment on discussion Developers

Parya Pasdar — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:02:26 -0000

hey is there anyway we can make the voice sound less robotic? the farsi is hard to understand and i think this is the main app irani ppl use for accessibility on android. @shadyar

Bill Pretty created ticket #13

Bill Pretty — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:39:57 -0000

espeak not working properly on Pi Zero W

Gison66 posted a comment on discussion Developers

Gison66 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:47:13 -0000

Hi James, I have been watching your YouTube eSpeak tutorial videos and it's really got me interested. I'm currently working on a virtual assistant project and uses eSpeak and I would like it to teach Spanish. After watching your tutorial on the dictionary, I see that one could create a spanish dictionary for words that the eSpeak program doesn't pronounce correctly. I was wondering if I could correspond with you to see if you have some advice on how I could use eSpeak to make a virtual assisstant...

Chi Kim posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Chi Kim — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:16:34 -0000

I'm trying to compile at higher sampling rate. Is that possible on headless? I get "20:15:56: Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly?" Thanks!

adamson posted a comment on discussion Help

adamson — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:47:11 -0000

hey bro I have the same query about text to speech plugin which I can also use for writing my blog on my website. I hope you will share your experience with me. thanks

bhujg posted a comment on discussion Help

bhujg — Fri, 26 May 2023 10:55:24 -0000

I should not be entering the characters accurately some place. I truly do apologize for the oversight in not referencing the structure of site. I'm presently getting this abnormal mistake. Any thought what could be causing this?

Katherine Anderson posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Katherine Anderson — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:52:02 -0000

Hi, i am also unable to activate the eSpeak: speech synthesis hello command, I am not able to pay attention the sound of Hi through the speaker of my services embedded board .

Sudhakar V modified a comment on discussion Help

Sudhakar V — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:07:15 -0000

Hi, Can I add new voice to synthesize speech. Thanks Sudhakar

Sudhakar V posted a comment on discussion Help

Sudhakar V — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:06:45 -0000

Hi, Can I add new voice to synthesize speech. Thanks Sudhakar

Marco Oros posted a comment on discussion Help

Marco Oros — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:34:19 -0000

OK and have You created an issue about this? Maybe, there isn't any issue. Also, this part of project is death.

saman modified a comment on discussion Help

saman — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:40:36 -0000

I tested it now , Espeak NG also has this problem "C:\Program Files\eSpeak NG\espeak-ng.exe" -v fa %GDWORD%

saman posted a comment on discussion Help

saman — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:39:32 -0000

I tested it now , Espeak NG also has this problem

Marco Oros posted a comment on discussion Help

Marco Oros — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:11:46 -0000

Work for Espeak have been moved to Espeak NG. Post issue there. This version of project is death.

saman modified a comment on discussion Help

saman — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:08:37 -0000

I used the Persian sounds in eSpeak in the Golden program, but unfortunately, the Golden program cannot properly pronounce the Persian text. "C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak\command_line\espeak.exe" -v mb-ir1 %GDWORD% There is no problem with English words and pronounces them correctly.

saman posted a comment on discussion Help

saman — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:07:15 -0000

I used the Persian sounds placed in the Golden program, but unfortunately, the Golden program cannot properly pronounce the Persian text. "C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak\command_line\espeak.exe" -v mb-ir1 %GDWORD% There is no problem with English words and pronounces them correctly.

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on discussion Developers

Valdis Vitolins — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:16:11 -0000

Hi, David! Jonathan has disappeared from the net for long time now. Active development and support now happens in eSpeak NG project: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng. Mailing list of espeak-ng project is: https://groups.io/g/espeak-ng

DavidLamhauge posted a comment on discussion Developers

DavidLamhauge — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:44:04 -0000

Hi Jonathan, In 2012, when I worked as a teacher in Greenland, we almost finished a Greenlandic voice for eSpeak. Is it ever been implemented in the voice list? I've looked through the old mails, and it was only the sound of 'gg' (double-G), that my greenlandic collegue was dissatisfied with. Aside from that, everything was perfect. Yours David Lamhauge

Ajith de Silva created ticket #136

Ajith de Silva — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:31:30 -0000

Stop switching languages during phonemization

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on ticket #10

Valdis Vitolins — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:06:48 -0000

I changed project status and now it has button "This project can now be found here".

François Revol posted a comment on ticket #10

François Revol — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:18:00 -0000

Hi, it might be interesting to have a visible banner on the website to point to espeak-ng. I found a bug and went all to sf.net to get the source to verify it was still here, checked out svn, until I noticed your reply.

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on ticket #10

Valdis Vitolins — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:09:11 -0000

eSpeak project is inactive for long time now. Active development and support now happens in eSpeak NG project https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng. Mailing list of espeak-ng project is https://groups.io/g/espeak-ng

Croiyx posted a comment on ticket #10

Croiyx — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:08:16 -0000

having this issue as well, thanks for posting

Achylles posted a comment on discussion Developers

Achylles — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 22:59:57 -0000

Hi, Could you help to solve the dependence issue between espeak and ebook-speaker? We are trying to align espeak-ng with ebook-speaker But, we are facing some issues there. See this thread to understand, if possible: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/825#issuecomment-874786049

Olivia May posted a comment on discussion Help

Olivia May — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:45:43 -0000

I've installed the espeak app on an android device (android 11) and set it as the default TTS engine. however it is not working for text in farsi so perhaps I need tod download the Farsi dictionary, however I can't find it to download. Can anyone help? thanks 😊

Luiz Felipe De Barros J Costa posted a comment on discussion Developers

Luiz Felipe De Barros J Costa — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:57:46 -0000

I've seen in the supported languages that there's further work to do about the ambiguity in the spelling between open/close "e" and "o" vowels. I think one way to solve this is to split it according to the accents of each region of Brazil, for example I'm from Recife and I pronounce much more these vowels in the open version than in the closed version. If you speak portuguese see this report about the various accents in Brazil https://youtu.be/8vPMsbBHSf4 I can also translate it to English when I...

Nafih Ahammed posted a comment on discussion Help

Nafih Ahammed — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:04:19 -0000

Hi all, I am a ES engineer working on Text to Speech (TTS) project. I first tinkered with Festival and flite but soon realized that Espeak has upper hand in resource constrained environments like mine. (I am trying to bring down the ROM/FLASH usage by the whole TTS system below 500 KB) So after building espeak-ng from source as per the instruction I used the strip command to even reduce the size of shared library strip src/.libs/libespeak-ng.so This reduced the size of shared library from 1.56 MB...

Gilles Casse posted a comment on discussion Developers

Gilles Casse — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 14:57:19 -0000

On 13/03/2021 16:28, Muhammad Yousaf wrote: could you help me in compiling the espeak in windows visual studio 2017 FYI, this is an opened issue: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/807

Muhammad Yousaf posted a comment on discussion Developers

Muhammad Yousaf — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:28:22 -0000

could you help me in compiling the espeak in windows visual studio 2017

Bob posted a comment on discussion Help

Bob — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:00:16 -0000

Hey all, I've run into an error that seems to have been already encountered in this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21536545/libespeak-voicing-extra-syllables-at-end-of-message. I won't post my code unless requested, since I don't want to clog people's screen space, and this other person seems to have had exactly my problem and used similar options. Basically, I'm using espeak in a QT5 application, and sometimes when a string is played by espeak (the exact same string, every time), espeak...

Filip Andonov posted a comment on discussion Help

Filip Andonov — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 07:32:45 -0000

In the phonemes section of the document it is said that a the phoneme mnemonics are based on the scheme by Kirshenbaum. A link is given, which, although dead, can be found thanks to archive.org. In this document there are symbols, that does not work with espeak. They are at least (maybe more): & for æ A for ɑ A. for ɒ In the phonemes section of the document there are some additional mnemonics like: [a] trap [aa] bath This is [a] in some accents, [A:] in others. [a#] about This may be [@] or may be...

Samuel Thibault posted a comment on ticket #19

Samuel Thibault — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:09:36 -0000

That's basically the same idea, yes

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on ticket #19

Valdis Vitolins — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:06:53 -0000

As far as I understand, this is the same as merged pull request: https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA/pull/24

Samuel Thibault created ticket #19

Samuel Thibault — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:54:13 -0000

Let environment provide default values for CPPFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS

Jacek Ruzyczka posted a comment on ticket #135

Jacek Ruzyczka — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 23:55:08 -0000

OK, at least I've got the following workaround now: I hand the text over to espeak as a normal C character array. In fact, it turned out that the texts (I read from a database) are UTF-8-encoded, so that I don't even have to convert them into a wide string: unsigned int spoken_message_uuid = 0; espeak_ERROR Speak (string text) { espeak_ERROR error = EE_OK; unsigned int *uuid = &spoken_message_uuid; const char *input = text.c_str (); cout << "Speaking text:" << endl << input << endl; error = espeak_Synth...

Jacek Ruzyczka posted a comment on ticket #135

Jacek Ruzyczka — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:35:21 -0000

No use! The errors persist with ver. 1.50 from the Debian Buster backports repo. Here is the exact version: pi@autoradio:/import/valen/autoradio $ apt-cache policy espeak-ngespeak-ng: Installiert: 1.50+dfsg-7~bpo10+1 Installationskandidat: 1.50+dfsg-7~bpo10+1 Versionstabelle: *** 1.50+dfsg-7~bpo10+1 100 100 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports/main armhf Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.49.2+dfsg-8 500 500 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf Packages

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on ticket #135

Valdis Vitolins — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:14:10 -0000

Please check, how it works with eSpeak NG latest version 1.50.

Jacek Ruzyczka created ticket #135

Jacek Ruzyczka — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:13:54 -0000

espeak_Synth: Trouble with German special letters in wchar_t* string.

Bappy Sarkar created ticket #134

Bappy Sarkar — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:23:24 -0000

Wish to contribute in solving some bugs of Espeak in web browsing and reading Bangla Language

Daniel Bair posted a comment on ticket #17

Daniel Bair — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:03:21 -0000

Also including final espeakedit patches here for posterity. Note: portaudio19.h should be copied to portaudio.h before attempting to build.

Daniel Bair posted a comment on ticket #17

Daniel Bair — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:35:01 -0000

Including final espeak patches here for posterity. Also, portaudio19.h should be copied to portaudio.h before attempting to build.

Daniel Bair modified a comment on ticket #17

Daniel Bair — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:14:17 -0000

These patches proposed long time ago are irrelevant, because eSpeak project is inactive since disappearance of Jonathan Duddington. Active development and support now happens in eSpeak NG project https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng maintained by Reece H. Dunn. Glad to see espeak-ng now supports OS X. I tried it a few years ago and I was unable to get it to build on OS X, so I have been supporting the original espeak on OS X as it is fairly stable even though the original espeak developer doesn’t...

Daniel Bair posted a comment on ticket #17

Daniel Bair — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 04:25:51 -0000

Ryan Carsten Schmidt posted a comment on ticket #17

Ryan Carsten Schmidt — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:43:47 -0000

espeak was just added to MacPorts a few days ago; I spent time fixing all the problems I found and reported some of them here. Good to know there's a newer maintained alternative. I'll suggest we switch to that in MacPorts.

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on ticket #17

Valdis Vitolins — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 12:43:02 -0000

Ryan Carsten Schmidt posted a comment on ticket #17

Ryan Carsten Schmidt — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:12:20 -0000

Also, on macOS, a dynamic library's filename extension is .dylib not .so.

Ryan Carsten Schmidt posted a comment on ticket #17

Ryan Carsten Schmidt — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:02:50 -0000

Also, on macOS, the correct flag for creating a dynamic library (Apple's name for a shared library) is -dynamiclib not -shared.

Ryan Carsten Schmidt posted a comment on ticket #17

Ryan Carsten Schmidt — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:00:54 -0000

A library's install_name must be an absolute path on macOS so the patch should use SONAME_OPT=-Wl,-install_name,$(LIBDIR)/ and not SONAME_OPT=-Wl,-install_name,

Knud van Eeden posted a comment on discussion Help

Knud van Eeden — Sat, 23 May 2020 00:17:53 -0000

Reinstall espeak

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on discussion Help

Valdis Vitolins — Fri, 22 May 2020 14:12:54 -0000

Do you try it with the same user for SSH as for current GUI session? Because sound system in most cases is properly initialized only for local session? Valdis I wanted to use this utility to send reminders to my daughter to stop playing games and do her homework. I can ssh into her machine (Linux Mint 19.3) from my office, and I want to run something like "espeak -f DoHomework.txt" from a remote session. Regardless of whether I use "espeak" or "espeak-ng", with or without sudo, it fails with alsa/pulseaudio...

James E. LaBarre posted a comment on discussion Help

James E. LaBarre — Tue, 19 May 2020 21:49:05 -0000

I wanted to use this utility to send reminders to my daughter to stop playing games and do her homework. I can ssh into her machine (Linux Mint 19.3) from my office, and I want to run something like "espeak -f DoHomework.txt" from a remote session. Regardless of whether I use "espeak" or "espeak-ng", with or without sudo, it fails with alsa/pulseaudio errors. Such as: sudo espeak -f DoHomework.txt ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate)...

Brian Quass posted a comment on discussion Help

Brian Quass — Wed, 06 May 2020 22:56:23 -0000

Not sure what that means, Valdis, but thanks for replying. On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:38 PM Valdis Vitolins valdisvi@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Nothing is impossible for these, who do everything with hands of others. having talking lips appear on Web page to synch with mp3 playback https://sourceforge.net/p/espeak/discussion/538921/thread/bb49875758/?limit=25#bff1 Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in https://sourceforge.net/p/espeak/discussion/538921/ To unsubscribe from further...

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on discussion Help

Valdis Vitolins — Wed, 06 May 2020 18:40:12 -0000

Usage of eSpeak NG in command line is described here: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/src/espeak-ng.1.ronn Everything else is up to used tools.

Valdis Vitolins posted a comment on discussion Help

Valdis Vitolins — Wed, 06 May 2020 18:37:56 -0000

Nothing is impossible for these, who do everything with hands of others.

Bradrg posted a comment on discussion Help

Bradrg — Fri, 01 May 2020 10:08:23 -0000

if you save it in Notepad instead of word, you can choose a whole lot of different formats in the save dialog. Have you tried using the -vhi tag so that it uses hindi instead of english? as per this document? http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html

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max jr. — Fri, 01 May 2020 04:08:21 -0000

Hello , how to save word document in such utf-16 file? edit: I tried word document in utf-8 .. didn't work. Tried utf-7 it is able to read only few.. even though word during save as mentioned proper conversion. BTW this is indian language doc.

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max jr. — Fri, 01 May 2020 03:56:54 -0000

Hello , how to save word document in such utf-16 file?

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pankaj gupta — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:15:24 -0000

Dear Team, I am using espeak applicaiton to generate the voice commands as per the project request. I have encounter another project requirement. As per the new project requirment I nee to generate the voice commands which must be based in age groups. For example, I need to generate a set of commands in US english, Male voice in for the age group of 23 to 30 and 40 and 50. Similar requirment do exists for female voices also. Request your support on the same. Request team to provide information on...

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Bradrg — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:26:56 -0000

Okay, it turns out the program was creating UTF-16 txt files, where espeak can apparently only read UTF-8 text files. Once I changed the encoding it worked.

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Bradrg — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:11:43 -0000

if I use the command: espeak "hello world" it works fine. If I save "hello world" into a text file and read that using the command: espeak -f "c:\test.txt" it reads it one character at a time as though spelling it out. This used to work in windows 7 32bit, but after updating to windows 10 64bit, I'm now getting this strange error. Any idea what could be causing this?

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James B Ross — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:32:45 -0000

I'm really liking eSpeak for my AI project. This appears to be exactly what I was hoping to find. What I like about it is that I can basically design how it speaks from the ground up which is exactly what I need for my project. Unfortunately I'm having difficulty finding good tutorials on exaclty how to work with eSpeak. What I'm doing right now is preparing a new dictionary that begins from scratch. So I want this dictionary to contain the absolute minimal number of words and phonemes. My Linguistic...

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James B Ross — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 01:26:37 -0000

Just thought I'd add the following information for anyone who might be interested. I was trying to have eSpeak say, "my name is alysha". As addressed in the previous posts the name was being pronounced incorrectly and I corrected that by adding new phonemes for the name alysha. However, there was still a problem. In the sentence, for some reason the "is" that came right before alysha was causing an "m" sound to be produced which make alysha sound like "malysha" It too me a while to find where this...

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James B Ross — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:12:15 -0000

Progress UPDATE again: First, for the sake of anyone else searching this forum I found the en_rules and en_list files in a directory named dictsource that was included in the originalk download zip file with espeak. In any case, I had some success. Here's what I did. MY PROBLEM. I wanted espeak to speak the name Alysha somewhat as Aleesha. It was currently saying it as Alyisha. I used espeakedit to see that the current phoneme translation of alysha was: 'aliS@ So then I typed in Alyeesha and it spoke...

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James B Ross — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:14:15 -0000

UPDATE: I found the en_rules and en_list files. I can open them with a text editor. I tried to open them with espeakedit but all that opens are empty tabs? So I'm still at a loss as to how to modify these files and complie them back into an en_dict file. For right now all I want to do is add some words with special prounuciations into the en_list file and see how that works. I may be interested in working with the en_rules file too, but that would come later.

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James B Ross — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:11:37 -0000

I'm using eSpeak in an AI project and I would like to be able to customize the way it prounces specific words. It's my understanding (which could be wrong) that this information is storied in the language dictionary file (i.e. en_dict for example). But how do I modify that file? I've installed eSpeak Edit and I've been trying to learn how to use it but it's difficult to find a good tutorial on it. It's my understand (which could be wrong) that the en_dict file is compled from two other files supposedly...