A free speech synthesizer available for *nix and Windows which has bindings for several programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, Lua and Go. It accepts Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and phonetic representations.
Questions tagged [espeak]
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ImportError: No module named espeak
I am trying to integrate text to speech capability in my program using espeak(windows7). I downloaded espeak 1.48.04. Path: C:\Anaconda2\Lib\site-packages\eSpeak.
Code:
import wx
import wikipedia
import wolframalpha
from espeak import…

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Espeak on windows 7 and python 2.7
On the begin I'll say that there is a similar post here: How to use espeak with python and I was using answers from this post, but still i'm getting errors, so maybe u'll be able to help me fix it.
import subprocess
text = '"Hello…

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Espeak Functionality
i am trying to do some functionality with espeak but missing some parameters
(i don`t know it) and working on code blocks on Linux
the next code runs well and reads Arabic Text
`#include
#include
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How can I manually set custom sound card device for espeak in C++?
I have already written following codes and the program can speak.
espeak_Initialize(AUDIO_OUTPUT_PLAYBACK, 0, NULL, 0);
espeak_SetParameter(espeakWORDGAP,7,0);
espeak_SetParameter(espeakCAPITALS,20,0);
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How can I enumerate available voices and languages using espeak API?
I am using espeak API from C++ to do some simple text to speech synthesis from my embedded app. Currently, I have copied this line from the basic example on how to get started:
espeak_SetVoiceByName("default");
This seems to work fine, however I…

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meSpeak configuring female voice
I was following the following post to configure the female voice to meSpeak JavaScript variation of eSpeak TTS framework.
Link
But I am unable to get it to work with the female voice. My en-us-f.json file look as the following.
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ileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'espeak-ng' on linux mint with python 3.10
Hoping someone might have a solution to this. I have looked everywhere and can't find an answer. I am using linux mint, vscodium with python 3.10 . My code is outputing this:
sh-5.1$ /bin/python /home/jarrad/Documents/vsnew/vassist4.py
Traceback…

Jarrad Lewis
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Python pyttsx3 has no sounds
I use pyttsx3 to generate voices, but there is no sound when running, here is my code:
import pyttsx3 as tts
e = tts.init(driverName="espeak")
e.say("hello")
e.runAndWait()
And I try to print the voices list, finding that the list is empty:
voices…
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Its throwing error , when I try to Download python-espeak
This is what iam getting when I tried to install it. Is there any solution for this. There is an error while building the wheel for python-espeak. I have used the command pip install python-espeak
C:\Users\akhil>pip install python-espeak
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I am trying to install espeak on python in vscode
PS C:\Users\lukas\glados-tts-main\glados-tts-main> pip install python-espeak
Collecting python-espeak
Using cached python-espeak-0.6.3.tar.gz (9.1 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: python-espeak
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eSpeak Installed via HomeBrew, unable to use it in python via subprocess
I installed espeak with homebrew.
Using the which espeak command in my terminal, I got this path : '/Users/username/homebrew/bin/espeak'
I added it to my path in python :
import os
os.environ['PATH'] += ':/Users/username/homebrew/bin/espeak'
I…

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How to uninstall eSpeak NG
I installed eSpeak NG by building it locally. I would like to uninstall it. I ran:
sudo apt-get remove espeak-ng-espeak
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apt-get remove -y --purge espeak-ng
...but these are not effective in removing the binary from my system:
espeak-ng…

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Trouble using 'pyttsx3' and 'espeak' although both are installed
I get
OSError: libespeak.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
However when I run $ espeak --version I get
eSpeak text-to-speech: 1.48.03 04.Mar.14 Data at:…

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Why is Popen not working for espeak-ruby in my programme?
I installed espeak-ruby using Bundle, but when I call it in my programme (insult.rb), it throws the following error.
C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/espeak-ruby-1.1.0/lib/espeak/voice.rb:17:in `popen': No such file or directory - espeak…

Saumya Shah
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capture bash script with espeak commands in audio file
I have a script that reads out text using espeak. the scripts reads out a line of text and then sleeps for a predefined time and the reads again and so on.
I would like to capture the output in an audiofile. However when using:
./script_name.sh --…

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