Latest revision as of 08:31, 13 January 2024

Espeak

espeak multi-lingual speech synthesis is available in Alpine Linux 1.7.29 and above.

Installing

espeak can be installed by running:

# apk add espeak

Example

For historical reasons, the canonical reference for speech synthesis on Alpine Linux is the phrase "Liver. Yes you heard me. Liver. There's nothing I can do about it."

To get your Alpine Linux machine to say that, you can run the following espeak command:

espeak "Liver. Yes you heard me. Liver. There's nothing I can do about it."

enjoy.

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 = Espeak =
-espeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) multi-lingual speech synthesis is available in Alpine Linux 1.7.29 and above.  So this just begs the question... what cool things can you do with a router that talks?
+[https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ espeak] multi-lingual speech synthesis is available in Alpine Linux 1.7.29 and above.
-But the first thing to do is just to get the router to talk.
+== Installing ==
-== Requirements ==
-* the soundcard and oss modules must be loaded.
-* use umix to set the volume on the sound card
-* sox is required to play the voice (for some reason alpine espeak doesn't talk to /dev/dsp)
+espeak can be installed by running:
+{{cmd|# apk add {{pkg|espeak|arch=}}}}
 == Example ==
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 For historical reasons, the canonical reference for speech synthesis on Alpine Linux is the phrase "'''Liver. Yes you heard me.  Liver.  There's nothing I can do about it.'''"
-To get your router to say, that, send the output of espeak to stdout, and pipe the result to sox's play command:
+To get your Alpine Linux machine to say that, you can run the following espeak command:
-   espeak --stdout "Liver. Yes you heard me.  Liver.  There's nothing I can do about it." | play  -t wav -
+{{cmd|espeak "Liver. Yes you heard me.  Liver.  There's nothing I can do about it."}}
 enjoy.
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