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

12 November 2020

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

29 Seconds

Average Run Time

1 Minute, 34 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/espeak2010.122011.052011.092012.012012.052012.092013.012013.052013.092014.012014.052014.092015.012015.052015.092016.012016.052016.092017.012017.052017.092018.012018.052018.092019.012019.052019.092020.012020.052020.092021.012021.052021.092022.012022.052022.095K10K15K20K25K
* 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 current as of 26 September 2022.

Revision History

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

Single-Threaded

Telephony


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

eSpeak-NG Speech Engine 20200907

Text-To-Speech Synthesis

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,513 public results since 22 September 2020 with the latest data as of 26 September 2022.

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)
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
100th
4
18
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
100th
5
18 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-12900K
99th
11
18
Apple M2
98th
6
20 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-12600K
98th
11
20 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
94th
51
21
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
90th
22
22 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core
90th
33
22 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-12400
89th
4
22 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core
89th
5
22
Intel Core i9-11900K
89th
49
22 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
89th
6
22
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
88th
22
22 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
88th
10
23
Apple M1
88th
3
23 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E-2288G
84th
10
24
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
84th
5
24 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
84th
4
24
Intel Core i7-8086K
83rd
9
24
Intel Core i9-9900K
81st
5
25
Intel Core i9-10900K
81st
17
25 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-9900KS
81st
6
25
2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core
79th
13
26
AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core
79th
4
26
AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core
79th
4
26
2 x AMD EPYC 73F3 16-Core
79th
4
26
AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core
78th
7
26
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
76th
5
26
Intel Core i7-1185G7
76th
3
26
Mid-Tier
75th
> 27
Intel Core i5-10600K
74th
14
27
Intel Core i7-7740K
74th
3
27 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core
73rd
12
27 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
73rd
22
27 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-10885H
73rd
7
27 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
72nd
11
27 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
71st
6
28
Intel Core i9-7980XE
70th
9
28
AMD EPYC 7543 32-Core
70th
4
28
AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core
69th
3
28
Intel Core i7-8700B
68th
4
28 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
68th
5
28
Intel Core i7-9750H
68th
11
28 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core
67th
12
28 +/- 2
2 x AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core
66th
4
28
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core
66th
6
28
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core
65th
6
28
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 32-Cores
65th
3
28 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-8700K
64th
6
29 +/- 2
2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core
64th
8
29 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core
64th
6
29 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-10980XE
62nd
10
29 +/- 3
Intel Celeron G6900
62nd
3
29
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6
62nd
6
29
Intel Core i7-7700K
60th
4
29 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
60th
30
29 +/- 3
Intel Core i5-7600K
59th
6
30
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
58th
12
30
2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
58th
11
30
Intel Core i7-7900X
58th
6
30 +/- 1
AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
57th
5
30
Intel Core i5-9400F
56th
6
30
Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5
55th
18
30
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core
55th
3
30
Intel Core i7-8550U
55th
9
30 +/- 1
Intel Core i3-10100
54th
6
30
Intel Core i5-8400
54th
6
31
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
54th
4
31 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-7960X
53rd
4
31 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core
52nd
3
31 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core
51st
3
31
AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core
51st
6
31
Median
50th
31
AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core
50th
13
31
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core
50th
3
31
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core
50th
4
31
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
50th
14
31
Intel Xeon E-2278GEL
49th
7
31
Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5
49th
3
31
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
48th
11
32 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
48th
15
32 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
47th
6
32
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
47th
3
32
Intel Core i3-7100
47th
3
32
Intel Xeon Silver 4215R
46th
3
32
Intel Core i3-10110U
45th
4
32
2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core
45th
7
33
AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core
45th
12
33
Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5
43rd
6
33 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-1065G7
43rd
14
33 +/- 2
Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
41st
7
34 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 5218
41st
6
34 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core
41st
9
34
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
40th
13
34
Intel Xeon Gold 6258R
40th
3
34
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
40th
3
34
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core
39th
15
34 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5
39th
6
34
Intel Core i5-6500
38th
6
34
Intel Core i7-9700TE
38th
4
34 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-8565U
38th
10
34 +/- 3
Intel Xeon Gold 5217
38th
4
35
Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
37th
3
35
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
36th
6
35
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
36th
7
35
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
36th
6
35
Intel Core i7-6700HQ
34th
6
35
AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core
34th
8
35
2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core
34th
12
35
AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core
33rd
8
36
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
32nd
10
36 +/- 1
AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core
31st
3
36
Intel Core i7-10700T
31st
5
36
AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core
31st
10
36
AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core
31st
10
36
AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core
30th
6
36
AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core
29th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core
29th
6
36
Intel Core i5-4670
28th
6
36
AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core
26th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core
26th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core
26th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core
26th
10
36
Low-Tier
25th
> 36
AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core
25th
10
36
Intel Xeon Silver 4214R
24th
3
37
Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3
24th
7
37 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core
24th
3
37
AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core
22nd
10
38
AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core
22nd
10
38
AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core
22nd
8
38
AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core
21st
3
38
AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core
21st
5
38
Intel Core i7-4960X
20th
6
39
Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core
19th
4
39
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core
18th
10
40 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-6800K
18th
9
40 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-3770K
18th
3
40
AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core
17th
3
40
2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core
17th
9
40
Intel Core i3-4130
17th
6
40
Intel Core i7-5775C
17th
7
40 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5
16th
3
40
Intel Xeon Silver 4216
15th
13
41
Intel Core i7-5960X
14th
4
42
Intel Core i5-3470
14th
6
42
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
13th
6
43 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3
12th
6
44 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-2700K
12th
6
44
Intel Core i7-5600U
11th
6
46 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-4770K
10th
8
47 +/- 2
Intel Core i5-2520M
10th
3
53
POWER9 44-Core
9th
10
54 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-4790K
9th
6
55 +/- 4
AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C
9th
3
55
AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core
8th
4
59 +/- 2
AMD A10-7850K APU
7th
9
61 +/- 2
AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core
7th
4
63 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core
6th
6
65 +/- 6
Intel Celeron N4020
6th
4
74 +/- 9
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
5th
6
80
Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core
4th
8
86 +/- 1
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core
4th
3
86 +/- 1
Intel Celeron J3455
4th
3
95
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core
3rd
20
157 +/- 22
ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core
3rd
6
160 +/- 19
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Text-To-Speech Synthesis1513 Results Range From 16 To 798 Seconds16447210012815618421224026829632435238040843646449252054857660463266068871674477280030060090012001500

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (eSpeak-NG Speech Engine 20200907 - Text-To-Speech Synthesis) has an average run-time of 4 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-Time612182430Min: 1 / Avg: 3.81 / Max: 26

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 1%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsText-To-Speech SynthesisDeviation3691215Min: 0 / Avg: 1.05 / Max: 11

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 Synthesis2468121618243248641280.71881.43762.15642.87523.594

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 COMISD UCOMISD SUBSD MOVAPD ANDPD ANDNPD CMPNLESD ORPD MOVDQU SQRTSD DIVSD CVTSD2SS
Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: sandybridge, skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).
 
VINSERTF128 VPERM2F128 VEXTRACTF128 VZEROUPPER VBROADCASTSS VBROADCASTSD
Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).
 
VPERM2I128 VEXTRACTI128 VPERMQ VPBROADCASTD VPBROADCASTB VINSERTI128 VPGATHERDD VPSLLVD VPBROADCASTQ VPERMD VPBLENDD VPMASKMOVD VPBROADCASTW
Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)
Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: cascadelake, sapphirerapids).
 
(ZMM REGISTER USE)
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 17 January 2022

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
SiFive RISC-V, SiFive U740, rv64imafdc, rv64imafdcsu
IBM POWER (PowerPC) 64-bit
ppc64le
POWER9 4-Core, POWER9 44-Core
Loongson LoongArch 64-bit
loongarch64
Loongson-3A5000LL
ARMv7 32-bit
armv7l
ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 3 4-Core
ARMv8 64-bit
aarch64
ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core, Apple M1, Apple M2

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