Re: [orca-list] text to wave file

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd users sf net>]

On 14 May, Milton <milton tomaatnet nl> wrote:

> I read about how to get a wave file from a text file by:

> espeak -w file.wave -f text_file_name

> it works perfect. But I would like to get the wave file in Indonesian
> and lower the speech rate.

Information about eSpeak command-line options is in:
http://espeak.sf.net/commands.html

and an summary is available with the --help option:

espeak --help

To specify a language, use the -v option with the voice name, which is
usually the ISO 639-1 code for the language.  For Indonesian, this is
"id".

To set the speed, use the -s option.  The default is -s 175  so use a
smaller number for a slower speed.

So try:

espeak -s150 -vid -w out.wav -f textfile

Please note that the eSpeak Indonesian voice has had very little
feedback and improvement from native speakers, so it will have many
errors and problems.  In particular, the sound of the letter 'e' and
the position of stress within a word cannot be determined by simple
rules, so these will often be wrong.