Female Voice using eSpeak

This was pretty difficult to figure out; The eSpeak documentation isn't all that good.

espeak -ven-us+f4 -s170 "6 new wireless networks found"

Use the -v option to specifiy a voice. After that you can provide the type of language, such as en or en-us. After that, add a plus, then either m or f, and a 1 – 5. The s option lets you set the speed. Unfortunately, most of the voices sound pretty bad…

Thomas has contributed to dozens of enterprise Node.js services and has worked for a company dedicated to securing Node.js. He has spoken at several conferences on Node.js and JavaScript and is an O'Reilly published author.