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eSpeak: Text To Speech Tool For Linux
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[eSpeak][1] is a command line tool for Linux that converts text to speech. This is a compact speech synthesizer that provides support to English and many other languages. It is written in C.
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eSpeak reads the text from the standard input or the input file. The voice generated, however, is nowhere close to a human voice. But it is still a compact and handy tool if you want to use it in your projects.
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Some of the main features of eSpeak are:
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- A command line tool for Linux and Windows
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- Speaks text from a file or from stdin
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- Shared library version for use by other programs
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- SAPI5 version for Windows, so it can be used with screen-readers and other programs that support the Windows SAPI5 interface.
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- Ported to other platforms, including Android, Mac OSX etc.
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- Several voice characteristics to choose from
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- speech output can be saved as [.WAV file][2]
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- SSML ([Speech Synthesis Markup Language][3]) is supported partially along with HTML
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- Tiny in size, the complete program with language support etc is under 2 MB.
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- Can translate text into phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end for another speech synthesis engine.
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- Development tools available for producing and tuning phoneme data.
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### Install eSpeak ###
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To install eSpeak in Ubuntu based system, use the command below in a terminal:
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sudo apt-get install espeak
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eSpeak is an old tool and I presume that it should be available in the repositories of other Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, Fedora etc. You can install eSpeak easily using dnf, pacman etc.
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To use eSpeak, just use it like: espeak and press enter to hear it aloud. Use Ctrl+C to close the running program.
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There are several other options available. You can browse through them through the help section of the program.
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### GUI version: Gespeaker ###
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If you prefer the GUI version over the command line, you can install Gespeaker that provides a GTK front end to eSpeak.
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Use the command below to install Gespeaker:
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sudo apt-get install gespeaker
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The interface is straightforward and easy to use. You can explore it all by yourself.
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While such tools might not be useful for general computing need, it could be handy if you are working on some projects where text to speech conversion is required. I let you decide the usage of this speech synthesizer.
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via: http://itsfoss.com/espeak-text-speech-linux/
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作者：[Abhishek][a]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]:http://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/
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[1]:http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
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[2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
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[3]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Language |