Ekho(余音)

(updated on Jan 1, 2013)

Ekho (余音) is a multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) software. It supports Cantonese (Chinese dialect spoken in Hong Kong and part of Guangdong province), Mandarin (standard Chinese), Zhaoan Hakka (a dialect in Taiwan), Tibetan, Ngangien (an ancient Chinese before Yuan Dynasty) 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 recommended versions:

Windows (32bit, SAPI5): ekho-5.0.exe (35M)
Windows (32bit, SAPI5, Cantonese only): ekho-cantonese-4.9.6.exe (10M)
Windows (32bit, SAPI5, for Chinese-Spanish bilingual users): ekho-spanish-4.9.3.exe (21M)
Linux: ekho-5.0.7.tar.bz2 (43M)
SUSE Linux 12.1 (64bit): ekho-4.8-SUSE12.x86_64.rpm (21M)
Ubuntu Linux 10.04 (32bit): ekho_4.5-2ubuntu10.04_i386.deb (18M)
Fedora Linux 14 (32bit): ekho-4.1-1.fc14.i686.rpm (14M)
Android: ekho-4.9.3.apk (496K)
Download from Google Play

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

For Windows users, Balabolka is recommended to used with Ekho.

Here are some documents for users:

Here are some documents for developers:

License: GPL v2