Installing espeak using pip in Python 3.6

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When I run pip install espeak, I get Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement espeak (from versions: ) . Anyone know how to fix this issue?

What makes you think it's a `Python` package? – l'L'l May 30 '18 at 15:09 — l'L'l, May 30 '18 at 15:09

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '18 at 15:14

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As suggested in a comment, espeak is not a Python package available on PyPI.

Perhaps you meant one of these:

pip install pyespeak
pip install speake  # Python 2
pip install speake3  # Python 3

If none of these packages are the one you need, you can take a look at the list here: https://pypi.org/search/?q=espeak

answered May 30 '18 at 15:14

Samuel Dion-Girardeau

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Thanks. I was actually trying out an online tutorial that implied it was a Python package. For anyone who has a similar problem in future, I used `pip install py-espeak-ng` – Mailer Daemon May 30 '18 at 15:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '18 at 15:18

Assuming you are after python-espeak, and are running Debian/Ubuntu, you likely want sudo apt-get install python-espeak. However, it is quite old and doesn't seem to support python3.

I'd recommend simply executing espeak directly using the subprocess module, like so:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import subprocess

def espeak(text: str, pitch: int=50) -> int:
    """ Use espeak to convert text to speech. """
    return subprocess.run(['espeak', f'-p {pitch}', text]).returncode

Installing espeak using pip in Python 3.6

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