espeak has gone German [SOLVED]

[Hove]

I'd have espeak working well in English (except running Python outside of IDLE but that's a different post).

Today, I used it to test some speakers with "Hello world", and it had a strange accent which sounded German, so I tried "Guten tag" which was perfectly pronounced. I haven't deliberately changed my locale to germany, but I have updated and upgraded my Raspian, and I think that updated espeak to support other languages.

Anyone got any suggestions how to get espeak to recognise it's in England and needs English pronunciation?

Thanks

[Hove]

The voices used by espeak is stored in the directory /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/espeak-data/voices/ and subdirectories.

Unless you specify a voice on the command line, it uses the "default" voice file. To change the default voice to sound Italian go to the above directory and type

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sudo mv default default.de
sudo cp it default

Due to many variants of English voice styles, there is a selection in the en subdirectory. In this case, for a straight English voice type

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 sudo mv default default.de
sudo cp en/en default

This takes effect the next time you run espeak