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Voice Files

Voices specify a language and other characteristics of a voice.

Mbrola Voices

eSpeak can be used as a front-end for Mbrola diphone voices.

Pronunciation Dictionary

• General info
• How to add pronunciation corrections.
• How to build up pronunciation rules for a new language.

Adding a Language

How to add or improve a language

Phonemes

The list of phoneme mnemonics for English, for use in the Pronunciation Dictionary.

• Phoneme Model
• Phoneme Features and the International Phonetic Alphabet

Phoneme Tables

The tables of the phonemes used by each language, with their properties and sound production.

Intonation

Different intonation "tunes" may be defined for different languages for clauses which end in full-stop, comma, question-mark, and exclamation-mark.

eSpeak Library API

API definition and header file for a shared library version of eSpeak.

• speak_lib.h

Guide to create simple program:

• simple example code
• complicated example code (CLI interface for espeak-ng)

Markup tags

SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) and HTML tags recognized by eSpeak.

The espeakedit program

General info

GUI software to edit vowel files and to compile the phoneme data for use by eSpeak.

• espeakedit program GUI details
• Analysing sound recordings
• Adjusting phoneme data (to be written)