Text To Speech App For Linux In Development

[Christopher Lemire]

I was given this command by Fred M. on the mailing list about the Text To
Speech app I am making. However all or most of these options should be
configurable by the user through GUI components.

espeak -s .001 -p 60 -k 18 -m -v mb-en1 -f [source].txt |mbrola -t .99 -f
1.25 -l 16000 -v 2.4 -e /usr/share/mbrola/voices/en1 - - | aplay -r16000
-fS16

Now I am confused how the program should adjust many options to mbrola and
espeak since they both be configured to do the same things.

What is that time ratio (mbrola -t) mean?

What is the difference between mbrola -f and mbrola -t (Looking at the man
page, you must be an mbrola developer or audiophile to understand this.)

I also see amplitude option to espeak. How is this different than pitch?

Please give me as much feedback as possible. The better I understand this,
the better the software will be that I provide to the Linux community. I
have made a lot of progress. I'm working on unimplemented features right
now.

-- 
Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
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