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.TH ESPEAK 1 "June 23, 2006"
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.SH NAME
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espeak \- A multi-lingual software speech synthesizer.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B espeak
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.RI [ options ]\ [ "<words>" ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B espeak
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is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-h
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Show summary of options.
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.TP
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.B \-f <text file>
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Text file to speak
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.TP
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.B \-\-stdin
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Read text input from stdin instead of a file
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.TP
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If neither -f nor --stdin, <words> are spoken, or if none then text is spoken from stdin, each line separately.
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.TP
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.B \-q
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Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with -x)
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.TP
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.B \-a <integer>
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Amplitude, 0 to 20, default is 10
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.TP
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.B \-l <integer>
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Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider
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lines less than this length as and-of-clause
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.TP
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.B \-p <integer>
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Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50
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.TP
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.B -s <integer>
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peed in words per minute, default is 160
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.TP
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.B \-v <voice name>
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Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices
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.TP
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.B -m
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Indicates that the text contains SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) tags or other XML tags. Those SSML tags which are supported are interpreted. Other tags, including HTML, are ignored, except that some HTML tags such as <hr> <h2> and <li> ensure a break in the speech.
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.TP
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.B \-w <wave file name>
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Write output to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly
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.TP
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.B \-x
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Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout
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.B \-X
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Write phonemes mnemonics and translation trace to stdout
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.TP
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.B \-\-stdout
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Write speech output to stdout
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.B \-\-compile=<voice name>
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Compile the pronunciation rules and dictionary in the current directory. =<voice name> is optional and specifies which language
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.TP
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.B \-\-punct="<characters>"
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Speak the names of punctuation characters during speaking. If =<characters> is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.
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.TP
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.B \-k <integer>
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Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals", higher values = a pitch increase (try -k20).
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.TP
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.B \-\-voices[=<language code>]
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Lists the available voices. If =<language code> is present then only those voices which are suitable for that language are listed.
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.SH AUTHOR
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eSpeak was written by Jonathan Duddington <jonsd@jsd.clara.co.uk>. The webpage for this package can be found at http://espeak.sourceforge.net/.
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.PP
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This manual page was written by Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
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