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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.