eSpeak-NG Speech Engine

This test times how long it takes the eSpeak speech synthesizer to read Project Gutenberg's The Outline of Science and output to a WAV file. This test profile is now tracking the eSpeak-NG version of eSpeak.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark espeak.

Project Site

github.com

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

1 May 2023

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

39 Seconds

Average Run Time

24 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

200k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

Public Result Uploads *Reported Test Completions **Reported Installs **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEventseSpeak-NG Speech Engine Popularity Statisticspts/espeak2010.122011.062011.112012.042012.092013.022013.072013.122014.052014.102015.032015.082016.012016.062016.112017.042017.092018.022018.072018.122019.052019.102020.032020.082021.012021.062021.112022.042022.092023.022023.072023.122024.052024.105K10K15K20K25K
* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 8 November 2024.

Revision History

pts/espeak-1.7.0   [View Source]   Mon, 01 May 2023 13:18:04 GMT
Update against espeak-ng 1.51 for working on newer compilers/distros.

pts/espeak-1.6.1   [View Source]   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:01:39 GMT
macOS working fine with eSpeak-NG.

pts/espeak-1.6.0   [View Source]   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:57:18 GMT
Update against eSpeak-NG Git snapshot due to GCC10 build issue on 1.50.

pts/espeak-1.5.0   [View Source]   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:41:01 GMT
Update against eSpeak-NG 1.50 upstream.

pts/espeak-1.4.0   [View Source]   Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:51:06 GMT
Update against latest eSpeak upstream to fix some build issues on newer platforms.

pts/espeak-1.3.0   [View Source]   Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:42:04 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Creator Workloads

Speech

Telephony

Single-Threaded


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

eSpeak-NG Speech Engine 1.51

Text-To-Speech Synthesis

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 615 public results since 1 May 2023 with the latest data as of 6 November 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component
Percentile Rank
# Compatible Public Results
Seconds (Average)
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
100th
8
16
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core
97th
8
16
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core
96th
10
16
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core
96th
7
16
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core
94th
10
16
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core
91st
9
17
Intel Core i9-14900K
91st
16
17 +/- 1
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
91st
5
17
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
87th
8
19
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core
87th
4
19
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
87th
4
19
Intel Core i5-14600K
86th
7
20 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core
85th
5
20
Apple M2
83rd
4
20
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
82nd
6
20
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core
82nd
9
20 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core
82nd
4
20
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V
80th
4
20
Intel Core i5-14500
80th
7
20 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core
78th
4
21
AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
77th
7
21
Mid-Tier
75th
> 21
AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
75th
9
21
Intel Core i5-12600K
74th
4
21
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core
73rd
5
21
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core
71st
7
22
Intel Core i3-14100
71st
8
22 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-1280P
71st
8
22 +/- 1
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
70th
9
22 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
70th
3
22 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core
69th
4
22
Intel Core i9-13900K
69th
3
22
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
68th
4
22
Intel Core i5-13400
66th
3
23
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
63rd
15
24 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-13600K
63rd
3
24
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
62nd
4
24 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
62nd
6
24
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core
61st
6
25
Intel Core i5-14400F
59th
5
25
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
58th
3
25
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
58th
4
25
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
57th
3
26
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core
56th
5
26
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
55th
4
27
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core
55th
3
27
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
54th
6
27 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-1185G7
54th
7
27 +/- 1
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H
53rd
3
27
AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
53rd
3
28
Intel Core i7-1165G7
51st
3
28
Median
50th
29
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
49th
5
29
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
46th
4
31
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
44th
3
33
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
44th
3
33
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
43rd
3
33
AMD Ryzen 7 4800U
43rd
3
34 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-8700
39th
3
36 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-1065G7
39th
4
36 +/- 4
Intel Core i9-10980XE
38th
6
37
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4
33rd
4
41 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 9J14 96-Core
32nd
45
42 +/- 5
AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core
26th
4
46
Low-Tier
25th
> 46
Loongson-3A6000
21st
5
47
ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core
18th
81
49 +/- 7
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
16th
18
51 +/- 1
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core
9th
3
60 +/- 3
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2
6th
34
66 +/- 2
rv64imafdcvsu
1st
3
145
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Text-To-Speech Synthesis599 Results Range From 15 To 145 Seconds152637485970819210311412513614750100150200250

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (eSpeak-NG Speech Engine 1.51 - Text-To-Speech Synthesis) has an average run-time of 8 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 4 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkText-To-Speech SynthesisRun-Time510152025Min: 1 / Avg: 7.69 / Max: 23

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 1.7%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsText-To-Speech SynthesisDeviation3691215Min: 0 / Avg: 1.68 / Max: 7

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

IntelAMDOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To BaseeSpeak-NG Speech Engine CPU Core ScalingText-To-Speech Synthesis46810121416240.42290.84581.26871.69162.1145

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set
Support
Instructions Detected
SSE2 (SSE2)
Used by default on supported hardware.
 
CVTSS2SD MULSD CVTTSD2SI MOVDQA ADDSD CVTSI2SD XORPD MOVDQU UCOMISD SQRTSD DIVSD CVTSD2SS MOVAPD SUBSD COMISD
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: sandybridge, skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128 VPERM2F128 VEXTRACTF128 VBROADCASTSS VBROADCASTSD
Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).
 
VPERM2I128 VEXTRACTI128 VPERMQ VPBROADCASTD VINSERTI128 VPBROADCASTB VPGATHERDD VPSLLVD VPERMD VPBLENDD VPBROADCASTQ VPBROADCASTW
FMA (FMA)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VFMADD132SD VFMADD231SD
Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: cascadelake).
 
(ZMM REGISTER USE)
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 25 June 2023

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libespeak-ng.so.1, libc.so.6, libm.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture
Kernel Identifier
Verified On
Intel / AMD x86 64-bit
x86_64
(Many Processors)
RISC-V 64-bit
riscv64
rv64imafdcvsu
Loongson LoongArch 64-bit
loongarch64
Loongson-3A6000
Intel / AMD x86 32-bit
i686
(Many Processors)
ARMv8 64-bit
aarch64
ARMv8, ARMv8 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, Apple M2, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

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