How to install more voices to Espeak?

  1. Download: http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/bin/pclinux/mbr301h.zip
  2. Copy text to run in terminal line by line:

    cd Downloads
    unzip mbr301h.zip
    sudo cp mbrola-linux-i386 /usr/bin/mbrola
    
  3. Download: http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/dba/en1/en1-980910.zip

  4. Copy text to run in terminal line by line:

    unzip en1-980910.zip
    cp en1/en1 /usr/share/mbrola/en1
    
  5. Now run espeak, with options

    espeak -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
    
  6. Nice, but it seems he is reading too fast, try:

    espeak -v mb-en1 -s 120 "Hello world"
    

you can install embrola voices executing the following command:

sudo apt-get install mbrola mbrola-en1

for more information visit the offical repo from github

espeak docs and man pages