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#14 espeak engine was unable speak in a C/C++ application

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:31:11 -0000

Jonathan -- Looks like something is missing though I am not very sure whether espeak engine works reading text messge through standalone application. I have seen command line exe works for English text and speaks the text. Hence, raised this request to seek assistance/suggestion. Please suggest as we are stuck to move further.

espeak engine was unable speak in a C/C++ application

JYOTIPRAKASH CHINARA — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:29:02 -0000

I am working as a software developer in Diebold Nixdorf Inc. One of our customer is interested Espeak engine version 1.48.04 (latest version on windows). Hence, I am doing a POC to support our customer with Espeak engine version 1.48.04 running on windows. I have written one sample applications in C++ with loading Espeak DLL (espeak_sapi.dll). ). I am passing as a text message and need to speak through this engine. So, as a process of speaking, I am calling Espeak APIs like espeak_Initialize(), espeak_Synth(), espeak_SetSynthCallback() and espeak_Synchronize() as sequence of calls . All calls are successful, still not able to speak though same logic of codes I have reused like Write4Bytes(), OpenWavFile() and CloseWavFile(). The requirement is NOT to use command line exe of espeak engine. I have attached the application file (eSpeak.cpp) for your reference. I am struggling to find out the exact root cause of the issue. So, requesting your suggestion to find out the root cause of the issue.

espeak not working properly on Pi Zero W

Bill Pretty — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:39:56 -0000

Espeak is not working properly for me on the Raspberry Pi Zero W. It either drops the first word or two or doesn't work at all. This problem appears to have been around for several years. Has anyone come up with a work around or a alternative to espeak ?? I am using the latest version of the OS: Release date: March 15th 2024 System: 32-bit Kernel version: 6.6 Debian version: 12 (bookworm)

#10 eSpeak uninstallation

Valdis Vitolins — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:06:46 -0000

I changed project status and now it has button "This project can now be found here".

#10 eSpeak uninstallation

François Revol — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:17:59 -0000

Hi, it might be interesting to have a visible banner on the website to point to espeak-ng. I found a bug and went all to sf.net to get the source to verify it was still here, checked out svn, until I noticed your reply.

#10 eSpeak uninstallation

Valdis Vitolins — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:09:09 -0000

eSpeak project is inactive for long time now. Active development and support now happens in eSpeak NG project https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng. Mailing list of espeak-ng project is https://groups.io/g/espeak-ng

#10 eSpeak uninstallation

croiyx — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:08:15 -0000

having this issue as well, thanks for posting

#11 speaking of .wav file

jijo — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:48:15 -0000

can i use espeak command line for playing .wav file

#11 speaking of .wav file

Valdis Vitolins — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 17:44:35 -0000

If you already have .wav file, you play it with any media player you like, e.g. vlc, audacity, medaplayer etc.

speaking of .wav file

jijo — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 05:57:24 -0000

is there any command to speak .wav file using espeak command line??