Re: [Espeak-general] SetVoiceByProperties

[Jonathan D. <jo...@js...>]

On 05 Sep, <hgn...@ya...> wrote:

> I want to get female voice for other languages.

> Are voices/!v/* just for English?
> What does language "variant" mean?

No, the voice variants can be applied to any language.  They change the
pitch and tone of the voice.

If you look at the files in espeak-data/voices/!v, they contain
commands to set the pitch range, modify vowel formants, and add echo,
noise, and other effects. 

> How should I use espeak_SetVoiceByProperties(spec) ? I
> am confuse with the voice setting result. They usually
> change back to English.

spec->languages = "zh";
spec->gender = 2;

should give you a female variant of language "zh".

(Note that the voice file  espeak-data/voices/zhy  has:
  language zh

That's probably wrong.  It would be better to have something like:
  language zh-yue

to distinguish it from other Chinese languages.
)

Alternatively (in eSpeak 1.29), you can use 
espeak_SetVoiceByName("zhy+f2")  where "f2" is the filename of a voice
variant file in  espeak-data/voices/!v