The espeakedit program is used to prepare phoneme data for the eSpeak speech synthesizer.
It has two main functions:
espeakedit needs the following packages:\ (The package names mentioned here are those from the Ubuntu “Dapper” Linux distribution).
In addition, a modified version of praat (www.praat.org) is used to view and analyse WAV sound files. This needs the package libmotif3 to run and libmotif-dev to compile.
This will quickly illustrate the main features. Details of the interface and key commands are given in editor_if.html
For more detailed information on analysing sound recordings and preparing phoneme definitions and keyframe data see analyse.html (to be written).
The Prosody window can be used to experiment with different phoneme lengths and different intonation.