Ekho(余音)

(updated on Feb 19, 2010)

Ekho (余音) is a Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software. It supports Cantonese, Mandarin and Korean (in trial). It can also speak English through Festival.

Try following form for demo:

Ekho supports both Linux and windows. We release source and voice data separately. In order to use the voice data, we just need to extract them to the directory under ekho-data.

Source download page: Ekho (余音)

Voice data download page: Ekho Voice Data
(Voice files begun with jyutping are for Cantonese while pinyin for Mandarin and hangul for Korean. 44100 and 16000 in the file name means sample rate. Higher sample rate generates higher quality.)

Here are some stable versions:

Windows: ekho-0.91-full.exe (64M), ekho-2.0.exe (38M)
Linux: ekho-2.4.tar.bz2 (46M)
Ubuntu Linux 8.04: ekho_2.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (52M)
Fedora Linux 11: ekho-2.4-11.fc11.i586.rpm (52M)
Fedora Linux 12: ekho-2.4-12.fc12.i686.rpm (49M)

If you want to use Ekho as a Chinese learning tool, Gradint may be a more suitable choice.

Here is an install guide for Linux: How to install Ekho. If you find it too difficult to build Ekho on Linux, try using zhspeak, which is written in Python but has limited functions.

A document for developer: Programme with Ekho

It's highly appreciated to contribute more voices. To make a new voice, please refer How to make a new voice for Ekho.

This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.