RuntimeError: espeak not installed on your system

[PasaOpasen]

How to solve RuntimeError: espeak not installed on your system on Windows without using Linux in Windows?

[mmmaat]

You need to install espeak, or better, espeak-ng : https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/building.md#windows

[PasaOpasen]

Yes, I did it and can open and use espeak application, but phonemizer raises that error still

[mmmaat]

Ok, so I suppose espeak-ng is not in your PATH. But phonemizer provides an alternative way to specify the path to espeak: you can setup the environment variable PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH with the absolute path to espeak (see https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/blob/master/phonemizer/backend/espeak.py#L62).

[PasaOpasen]

The path to espeak is the path to folder with TTSApp.exe, sure?

After creating this path I have an error:

PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak is not an executable file

Which path should I use? To which file?

[mmmaat]

I don't have Windows so I cannot really help you with hands on... It has already been used on Windows and you are the first one to report such an issue. The PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH must be an absolute path to the .exe file, along with the .exe extension.

Maybe PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak.exe will work? If you have such a file... The good file must be an executable one, usable from command line (not a GUI one).

You can also try this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak/files/espeak/espeak-1.48/setup_espeak-1.48.04.exe

[PasaOpasen]

Very good! There was the file C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak\command_line\espeak.exe and I did assign it to PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH. Now it works!

[sujithvoona]

Hey @PasaOpasen, before setting the environment variable path as PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH = C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak\command_line\espeak.exe did you store espeak.py file at any specific place.

Did the error got cleared after placing this espeak.py at a certain place and you set the environment variable path or you had nothing to do with the espeak.py file and set the environment variable "PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH"

I created a new environment variable PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH and I gave the path same as you C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak\command_line\espeak.exe. I am still facing the error.

Please help.

[danthemango]

That's because you're trying to add the path to the .exe file, you need to add the directory instead to the PATH variable:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\eSpeak\command_line"

[richardfoltin]

The variable name is changed to PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_LIBRARY and it refers to the .dll now:
PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_LIBRARY="c:\Program Files\eSpeak NG\libespeak-ng.dll"

[cantabile-kwok]

The variable name is changed to PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_LIBRARY and it refers to the .dll now: PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_LIBRARY="c:\Program Files\eSpeak NG\libespeak-ng.dll"

This worked very well and saved me a headache, thanks!