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

27 Seconds

Average Run Time

3 Minutes, 52 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

150k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

Public Result UploadsTest Completions*Reported Installs*OpenBenchmarking.orgEventseSpeak-NG Speech Engine Popularity Statisticspts/espeak2011.042011.082011.122012.042012.082012.122013.042013.082013.122014.042014.082014.122015.042015.082015.122016.042016.082016.122017.042017.082017.122018.042018.082018.122019.042019.082019.122020.042020.082020.122021.045K10K15K20K25K
* 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.
Data current as of Sat, 10 Apr 2021 04:53:01 GMT.

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

Single-Threaded

Speech


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

eSpeak-NG Speech Engine 20200907

Text-To-Speech Synthesis

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,109 public results since 22 September 2020 with the latest data as of 3 April 2021.

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
# Matching Public Results
Seconds (Average)
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core
99th
30
21
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core
95th
24
22 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
95th
15
22 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
95th
15
23 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E-2288G
93rd
10
24
Intel Core i7-8086K
91st
9
24
Intel Core i9-11900K
91st
7
25
Intel Core i9-9900K
90th
5
25
Intel Core i9-9900KS
89th
6
25
Intel Core i9-10900K
89th
15
25 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core
88th
5
26
AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core
88th
4
26
Intel Core i7-7740K
84th
3
27 +/- 1
Intel Core i5-10600K
84th
13
27
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core
84th
10
27 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
83rd
22
27 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
82nd
9
27
Intel Core i9-10885H
82nd
7
27 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core
81st
3
27
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
80th
6
28
Intel Core i7-9750H
79th
10
28 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-10980XE
79th
5
28 +/- 1
Intel Core i9-7980XE
79th
9
28
AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core
78th
3
28
Intel Core i7-8700B
77th
4
28 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
77th
5
28
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core
76th
12
28 +/- 2
Mid-Tier
75th
> 28
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core
75th
6
28
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core
75th
4
28 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
74th
10
29
Intel Core i7-8700K
73rd
6
29 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core
73rd
6
29 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-7700K
72nd
3
29 +/- 2
2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core
72nd
5
29
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6
71st
6
29
Intel Core i5-7600K
69th
6
30
2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
68th
8
30
Intel Core i7-7900X
68th
6
30 +/- 1
AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core
67th
3
30
Intel Core i5-9400F
66th
6
30
Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5
65th
18
30
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core
65th
3
30
Intel Core i7-8550U
65th
9
30 +/- 1
Intel Core i3-10100
64th
6
30
Intel Core i5-8400
64th
6
31
Intel Core i9-7960X
63rd
4
31 +/- 2
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core
62nd
3
31 +/- 1
2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core
61st
3
31
AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core
60th
6
31
AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core
60th
13
31
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core
59th
3
31
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core
59th
4
31
AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core
59th
14
31
Intel Xeon E-2278GEL
58th
7
31
Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5
57th
3
31
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
57th
6
31 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
56th
6
32
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
56th
13
32 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
55th
3
32
Intel Core i3-7100
55th
3
32
Intel Xeon Silver 4215R
55th
3
32
Intel Core i3-10110U
53rd
4
32
2 x AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core
53rd
7
33
AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core
53rd
12
33
Median
50th
33
Intel Core i7-1065G7
50th
12
33 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5
50th
6
33 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
48th
7
34 +/- 1
Intel Xeon Gold 5218
48th
6
34 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core
48th
9
34
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
47th
12
34
Intel Xeon Gold 6258R
47th
3
34
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280
47th
3
34
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core
46th
15
34 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5
46th
6
34
Intel Core i5-6500
45th
6
34
Intel Core i7-9700TE
45th
4
34 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-8565U
44th
9
35 +/- 3
Intel Xeon Gold 5217
44th
4
35
Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
43rd
3
35
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
42nd
6
35
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
42nd
7
35
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
42nd
6
35
Intel Core i7-6700HQ
39th
6
35
AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core
39th
8
35
2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core
39th
12
35
AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core
38th
8
36
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
37th
10
36 +/- 1
AMD EPYC 7262 8-Core
36th
3
36
Intel Core i7-10700T
36th
5
36
AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core
36th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core
35th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core
33rd
10
36
AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core
32nd
6
36
AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core
32nd
5
36
Intel Core i5-4670
32nd
6
36
AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core
29th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7662 64-Core
29th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core
29th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core
28th
10
36
AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core
28th
10
36
Intel Xeon Silver 4214R
26th
3
37
Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3
26th
7
37 +/- 1
Low-Tier
25th
> 37
2 x AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core
25th
3
37
AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core
24th
10
38
AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core
23rd
10
38
AMD EPYC 7272 12-Core
23rd
8
38
AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core
22nd
3
38
AMD EPYC 7352 24-Core
22nd
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
16th
7
40 +/- 1
Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5
16th
3
40
Intel Xeon Silver 4216
14th
13
41
Intel Core i7-5960X
13th
4
42
Intel Core i5-3470
13th
6
42
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
12th
6
43 +/- 2
Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3
11th
6
44 +/- 2
Intel Core i7-2700K
11th
6
44
Intel Core i7-5600U
9th
6
46 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-4770K
8th
6
47 +/- 2
Intel Core i5-2520M
8th
3
53
POWER9 44-Core
7th
10
54 +/- 1
Intel Core i7-4790K
7th
6
55 +/- 4
AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C
7th
3
55
AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core
6th
4
59 +/- 2
AMD A10-7850K APU
5th
9
61 +/- 2
AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core
4th
4
63 +/- 1
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core
4th
6
65 +/- 6
Intel Celeron N4020
3rd
4
74 +/- 9
Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4
3rd
6
80
Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core
2nd
4
86 +/- 2
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core
1st
10
157 +/- 3
ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core
1st
3
176 +/- 8
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Text-To-Speech Synthesis1109 Results Range From 20 To 298 Seconds20375471881051221391561731902072242412582752923092004006008001000

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-Time510152025Min: 1 / Avg: 3.57 / Max: 18

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.9%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsText-To-Speech SynthesisDeviation3691215Min: 0 / Avg: 0.9 / 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 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, 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, 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
The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.
Last automated analysis: 30 January 2021

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libespeak-ng.so.1, libc.so.6, libpthread.so.0, libm.so.6.

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26 Systems - 438 Benchmark Results

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25 Systems - 438 Benchmark Results

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 - GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers

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1 System - 550 Benchmark Results

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Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.10.13-051013-lowlatency - GNOME Shell 3.36.4

24 Systems - 333 Benchmark Results

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core - Supermicro H11DSi-NT v2.00 - AMD Starship

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