using speech synthesis

synthesizing speech as an audio signal

It is also possible to synthesize speech from a text file.

synthesizing English speech using audio output and the Festival Speech Synthesis System

Note

• Foo bar? Baz. represents text to be synthesized as speech.

Use echo "Foo bar? Baz." | festival --tts.

The Festival Speech Synthesis System provides multiple possible voices.

synthesizing United States English speech using the default audio device and eSpeak NG

Note

• Foo bar? Baz. represents text to be synthesized as speech.

Use espeak-ng -v "gmw/en-US" "Foo bar? Baz.".

Use espeak-ng --voices to list available voices or espeak-ng --voices=en to list available English voices.

Bug

Voice files prefixed with mb/ (MBROLA) cannot be used.

explanation

Note

This is an incomplete explanation.

• The -v "gmw/en-US" option uses the gmw/en-US voice file, with a VoiceName of english-us.

licensing

No rights reserved: CC0 1.0.