Quote:
Originally Posted by knc1
Now if you could find a tag to change the voice, the Klingon might sound better spoken in a whiskey-bass voice.
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Well, there is an SSML <voice gender="male" name="Worf"> tag but eSpeak doesn't support it.
espeak -v russian+croak is the closest that I could find
Code:
espeak [options] ["<words>"]
-f <text file> Text file to speak
--stdin Read text input from stdin instead of a file
If neither -f nor --stdin, then <words> are spoken, or if none then text
is spoken from stdin, each line separately.
-a <integer>
Amplitude, 0 to 200, default is 100
-g <integer>
Word gap. Pause between words, units of 10mS at the default speed
-k <integer>
Indicate capital letters with: 1=sound, 2=the word "capitals",
higher values indicate a pitch increase (try -k20).
-l <integer>
Line length. If not zero (which is the default), consider
lines less than this length as end-of-clause
-p <integer>
Pitch adjustment, 0 to 99, default is 50
-s <integer>
Speed in words per minute, 80 to 450, default is 175
-v <voice name>
Use voice file of this name from espeak-data/voices
-w <wave file name>
Write speech to this WAV file, rather than speaking it directly
-b Input text encoding, 1=UTF8, 2=8 bit, 4=16 bit
-m Interpret SSML markup, and ignore other < > tags
-q Quiet, don't produce any speech (may be useful with -x)
-x Write phoneme mnemonics to stdout
-X Write phonemes mnemonics and translation trace to stdout
-z No final sentence pause at the end of the text
--compile=<voice name>
Compile pronunciation rules and dictionary from the current
directory. <voice name> specifies the language
--ipa Write phonemes to stdout using International Phonetic Alphabet
--ipa=1 Use ties, --ipa=2 Use ZWJ, --ipa=3 Separate with _
--path="<path>"
Specifies the directory containing the espeak-data directory
--pho Write mbrola phoneme data (.pho) to stdout or to the file in --phonout
--phonout="<filename>"
Write phoneme output from -x -X --ipa and --pho to this file
--punct="<characters>"
Speak the names of punctuation characters during speaking. If
=<characters> is omitted, all punctuation is spoken.
--split="<minutes>"
Starts a new WAV file every <minutes>. Used with -w
--stdout Write speech output to stdout
--version Shows version number and date, and location of espeak-data
--voices=<language>
List the available voices for the specified language.
If <language> is omitted, then list all voices.
Code:
To make alternative voices for a language, you can make additional voice files in espeak-data/voices which contains commands to change various voice and pronunciation attributes. See voices.html.
Alternatively there are some preset voice variants which can be applied to any of the language voices, by appending + and a variant name. Their effects are defined by files in espeak-data/voices/!v.
The variants are +m1 +m2 +m3 +m4 +m5 +m6 +m7 for male voices, +f1 +f2 +f3 +f4 +f5 for female voices, and +croak +whisper for other effects.