Re: [orca-list] New Linux user, needing higher quality speech

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd users sf net>]

On 18 May, Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com> wrote:

> Espeak also doesn't seem to list its variants in its voice list
> output, either via Speech Dispatcher or the espeak command-line
> utility. So perhaps espeak does need to be extended to make its
> variants available via the same way other voices are listed and used.

> From the command-line:

espeak --voices=variant

will list all the voice variants.

> From the API, call espeak_ListVoices(ESPEAK_VOICE* voice_spec)

with the "language" field of voice_spec set to "variant"