Re: [orca-list] text to wave file

["Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>]

Hi,
Many many thanks for your instructions! Wonderfull.
I couldn't figure it out with espeak -h myself.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jonsd users sf net>
To: <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] text to wave file


> 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.
>
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