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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How to use Oddcast with Asterisk?
Currently, i'm using Espeak with Asterisk (brazilian's voice), but i'm not getting good results. I found Oddcast and it's really helpful, but coudn't find out yet how to use it with Asterisk.

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How to make a certain script run on 'permission denied'? (Raspberry Pi)
I have had an idea for a bash script on my Pi that uses espeak to say "I'm sorry $username, I'm afraid I can't let you do that", when you try to do something you don't have permission for.
However, I have no idea how to do this, and a minimal…

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How to make meSpeak.js read special characters?
I would like to use mespeak.js script (based on speak.js based on espeak) for text-to-speech - which has a czech voice file -, but for some reason it skips czech special characters like ě, š, č, ř, ž and reads only the rest.
As espeak on Windows…

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eSpeak to mp3 in php on both windows and linux (online text-to-speech)
I want to implement simple text-to-speech script in my web application that would dynamically generate mp3's out of given texts.
It needs to run in both:
my local WAMP server on windows
and my online linux server
eSpeak doesn't offer the highest…

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libespeak voicing extra syllables at end of message
I have an application that uses libespeak (version 1.47.11) to announce various status messages in a human-like voice.
This was working well until a new thread was introduced into the application. Now, commonly, the expected words are followed by…

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ubuntu cant execute exec(test.sh) in php
In my php code:
exec(test.sh);
and test.sh has code:
echo "Hi this is test?" | espeak --stdout > demo.wav
But nothing happen. No error, No output.
If i try to execute test.sh from terminal that it will work perfectly. So why it not run on my…

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So i'm trying to make a background process that 'espeak's specific log events
I'm relatively new to linux - please forgive me if the solution is simple/obvious..
I'm trying to set up a background running script that monitors a log file for certain keyword patterns with awk and tail, and then uses espeak to provide a…

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Visual studio error compiling Espeak
I'm a Pascal programmer but i need to compile a C library for Windows.
That library is espeak (a voice synthesizer) which uses portaudio lib to access audio port. I have translated the C header into Pascal and have no problem using that library in…

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ESpeak Engine in iOS in synchronous manner
In one of the Table view delegate method I am accessing some strings based on some conditions
and i want to speak those strings using ESpeak Engine..In the Log it is giving all the matched strings...but ESpeak Engine is only taking last string…

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speak.js compiling issues in windows
I'm having this issue when trying to compile speak.js. In emscripten.sh when the compiler reaches this line:
$EMSCRIPTEN/emcc -O2 --js-transform "python bundle.py" speak.bc -o speak.raw.js
I get this error (previous parts work…
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Which lines are necessary to use espeak in our C/C++ program?
I found this code on the internet:
#include
#include
#include
espeak_POSITION_TYPE position_type;
espeak_AUDIO_OUTPUT output;
char *path=NULL;
int Buflength = 1000, Options=0;
void*…

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undefined reference to espeak using cmake
I am working on this project and this is a related issue
i have replaced the TTS flite engine with Espeak TTs engine so I had to modify the CmakeLists.txt
find_package(Espeak REQUIRED)
include_directories(${Espeak_INCLUDE_DIRS})
set(LIBS ${LIBS}…

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Operate - espeak -v mb-en1 "hello world" - in Python
how I can run this command:
espeak -v mb-en1 "hello world"
this works in Linux Mint terminal but how would this in a Python program?
thanks for any suggestions
last minute change:
I recently managed to work this way:
import os
text = "hello…

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Which one is better? Using System() function inside C++ code or using source codes?
Sorry if the question title is not well, but I am trying to explain what I mean:
As I know I can use system() function to using Linux terminal's commands inside my C++ code. For example system("aplay sound.wav");. I don't know can I write all the…

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Is it possible to use "espeak" in system(" "); function?
Is it possible to use espeak in system(""); function like system("aplay 1.wav") for example?
I like to use espeak in my C/C++ code inside Ubuntu OS.

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