Questions tagged [espeak]

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.

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TypeError: argument of type 'int' is not iterable upon incorrect speech recognition

I'm working on a TTS/STT system for a school project and it was going well until I started getting this specific error whenever the code ran through the "Google Speech Recognition Does not recognize what you said" bit. I am unsure of why I get this…
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How do I fix This alsa error with the espeak command utility

I am running parrotsec linux in a virtual machine (VMWare Workstation 16 Pro) and am trying to run espeak to use tts, the command is: espeak "hello" I have been troubleshooting this and I haven't gotten anywhere, the error message I am getting…
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I get the following error in console when I try to install python-espeak

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: 'C:\Users\carli\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe' -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] =…
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I'm trying to create a speak app but i got error as Segmentation fault

I'm trying to build text speaking app with Python. Here this is my code: import pyttsx3 import PyPDF2 book=open("LifesAmazingSecets.pdf",'rb') pdfReader=PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(book) pages=pdfReader.numPages print(pages) engine =…
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aplay sound test and espeak setup

I am using the 2020-05 raspbian image and have headphones plugged-in to the raspberry pi 3b+. Following this tutorial, I tried to test my sound with aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/* and heard "Front Center" with the following output Playing WAVE…
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espeak-ng cross compile make install issue

I am trying to cross compile espeak-ng for target=arm-linux-gnueabihf The sudo make install step gives the following error : ~:~/Downloads/Dependencies/espeak-ng-master$ sudo make install [sudo] password for abc:…
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shows error " sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string " in python

#!/usr/bin/env python3 from os import system def playSong(): message = "it's time to drink water and, take a rest for some minutes." #filepath = "/home/leader/Downloads/anywhere.mp3" system("espeak '" + message + "'") playSong() while…
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espeak skips the first phoneme of the sentence

I am trying to use espeak for text to speech on a respeaker core v2. If my sentence is "Begin Recording", then espeak only speaks "egin Recording". It occasionally says it correctly. How do I fix this? I tried adding some random characters ahead of…
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Using Espeak with os in python

When I open up my command prompt, i am able to type espeak and then the text i want to be said, however when i try to do this through my python code using os it says 'espeak' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program…
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Audio not working for rails app on heroku

I am using espeak-ruby gem on my rails app and it is working fine on my local machine. When I deployed to heroku, the app did not work because there was no espeak installed on heroku. Then I used the build-buildpack-apt to install espeak on heroku.…
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Is it possible to use say-command line in linux terminal? (not espeak)

i'm trying to search for the best tts. and finally I found that say command in mac-os terminal is the most natural speaker engine. but I want to use it in my linux OS.(Ubuntu or manjaro) Is it any way to use it in linux? I EMPHASIS that I don't want…
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How to run Espeak and Pocketsphinx simultaneously?

I am trying to run Pocketsphinx together with Espeak, so that when a word is recognized it answers back with text to speech. I have gotten both to work in this sketch, but once Pocketsphinx is running Espeak stops working. No error, just no…
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trying to edit tts package in aeneas python

I started working with aeneas for python, I'm running the code on an ubuntu machine I wanted to change the default tts -espeak- to another tts like macos $python -m aeneas.tools.execute_task\ ara.mp4 ara.xml\…
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How to use espeak_EVENT_TYPE;

I am looking a way to know when espeak ended it's speaking. Somebody told use the espeakEVENT_MSG_TERMINATED. But when I try to put this part to my code it gives me this error: #include espeak_EVENT_TYPE; if(…
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How to find if espeak ended the speech?

I want to use espeak in my program. I'd like to know when espeak stops speaking. Are there any flags or functions to check? Let's consider this is my program: Line 1 espeak Line 2 When I execute this code, espeak starts to say "hello, this is…
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