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After writing it, we only have to press Intro. Now we just have to write the text we want eSpeak to read aloud. We will also be able to type the following command and then press Intro: espeak The first will be using the following command to listen to a text specified in quotes:Įspeak "Testing espeak from the Ubuntu 18.04 terminal" Through the eSpeak utility, we will be able to easily listen to a specific text. We will do this by writing the command:Įspeak -version Use eSpeak to convert text to audio To do it we will only have to write in the same terminal:Īfter the installation we will be able to check the version number of the app, at the same time that we will also check that it was installed correctly in the system.
#Text to speech mac terminal install#
In it we will only have to start by updating the index of available packages by typing: sudo apt updateĪfter the update, we are ready to install eSpeak. For this reason, its installation is simple from the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). We will find this tool available in the official Ubuntu repositories. 1.2 A graphical interface called Gespeaker.1.1 Use eSpeak to convert text to audio.You can also change the pitch, speed, and volume, among others. You can also the context interpretation which helps when a word has two different pronunciations depending on context, example: coordinates as in a map location, and coordinates as in coordinating an event. You can tell the parser to speak particular words with more emphasis by using the emphasis command “]”. Maybe you want to really stress a particular word like “do NOT try this at home!”. To return to the normal parsing method add “]”. To tell the parser you want the number read literally insert “]” before the number. Let’s say you have the number “5551234” and want it read as “five five five one two three four” instead of “5 million five hundred fifty one thousand two hundred thirty four”.
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Sometimes you may want it to speak each digit of a number individually rather than speaking the numbers value. Apple has given control over speaking speed as well. Some of the voices sound better than others. To add a 3.5 second pause between paragraphs in the preceding text, it would now look like this: Hello, this is a test of the Apple Text to Speech capability. To place a pause you add “]” where x is the number of milliseconds to pause. In this case you want to use the silence command. The secret to pausing lies in the parsers ability to process embedded speech API commands inline with the text. If you insert “…” on a blank line it will speak “horizontal eclipses”. Any amount of whitespace can be added between paragraphs but it is ignored by the parser. Apple has given control over speaking speed as well.īut there is still a problem with long pauses between paragraphs. The preceding paragraph can be re-written as follows and between sentence pauses are evident which makes it much easier to listen and follow: Hello, this is a test of the Apple Text to Speech capability. This can be mitigated to some extent by using “…” at the end of each sentence. Sentences are run together with nary a pause. Right away I found it wasn’t quite perfect. Try it! Hello, this is a test of the Apple Text to Speech capability. Text to speech is available by selecting text you want spoken, right clicking and choosing “Speech” -> “Start Speaking”. There are many voices to choose from, and a handful of high quality voices that are very close to almost being indistinguishable from human speech (Siri quality).
#Text to speech mac terminal mac os x#
I’ve been playing with the text to speech capabilities built into Apple Mac OS X recently.