sonic(1) [debian man page]
SONIC(1) General Commands Manual SONIC(1) NAME
sonic - Speech speed manipulator SYNOPSIS
sonic [OPTION]... inFile outFile DESCRIPTION
Sonic is used to make wav files of speech faster or slower. The primary advance in sonic is the ability to speed speech up by much more than 2X, with minimal distortion. However, sonic can be used for both speeding up and slowing down speech files. Additionally, sonic can change the pitch and volume. OPTIONS
-c Modify pitch by emulating vocal chords vibrating faster or slower. This causes more distortion than the default pitch scaling, but sounds more like the same person trying to talk higher or lower. The default pitch changes makes the voice sound like a larger or smaller person, but introduces little distortion. -p pitch Set pitch scaling factor. 1.3 means 30%% higher. -q Disable all speed-up heuristics, possibly improving the quality slightly. This is mainly used for debugging the speed-up heuris- tics. -r rate Adjust the speed of playback. This sales both the pitch and speed equally. -s speed Set speed up factor. 1.0 means no change, 2.0 means 2X faster. -v scaleFactor Scale volume by scaleFactor. 1.5 increases by 50%. Clips if the maximum range is exceeded. EXAMPLES
sonic -s 3.2 book.wav book_fast.wav The above command would increase the speed of an audio book called book.wav by a factor of 3.2, and write the result in book_fast.wav. sonic -s 0.5 -v 1.5 spanish.wav spanish_slow.wav This would slow down the file spanish.wav by a factor of 2, make the volume 50% louder, and write the result to spanish_slow.wav. sonic -p 2.0 low.wav high.wav This would make a low voice sound very high pitched. AUTHOR
Bill Cox waywardgeek@gmail.com Sonic Version 0.1, Copyright 2010, Bill Cox, GPL license SONIC(1)
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expack(1) General Commands Manual expack(1) NAME
expack - manipulate Flex files SYNOPSIS
expack -a FLEXFILE FILE... expack -c FLEXFILE FILE... expack -x FLEXFILE [INDEX] expack -i MANIFEST expack -l FLEXFILE DESCRIPTION
expack is a command-line utility that lets you extract and create Flex files. Flex files are archives (which means that they act as con- tainers for other files, somewhat like directories) used by Ultima 7 to store most of its data. Note that the names of the original files are not stored in the Flex -- files are only retrievable by their index. Modes of operation -a Add --NOT IMPLEMENTED YET. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT-- This command adds one or more FILEs to the end of FLEXFILE. -c Create This command takes one or more FILEs and bundles them into FLEXFILE, overwriting it in the process. -x Extract Lets you extract the files contained within FLEXFILE. If INDEX is given only the file at this position will be unpacked, otherwise all files are extracted. The created files will be named index.u7o. -i Input Similar to "Create", this command creates FLEXFILE from a number of input files. However, "Input" takes the names of the input files from MANIFEST instead of the command line. MANIFEST must be a list of file names, one per line. The first name is that of the Flex file that is to be created, the rest are the input files used in building it. -l List This command lists the contents of a FLEXFILE. It gives you the number of files contained within the Flex file, as well as the length of each file. EXAMPLES
expack -a animals.flx bee.wav Adds bee.wav to the Flex file animals.flx. expack -a animals.flx hamster.wav snake.wav donkey.wav Adds hamster.wav, snake.wav, and donkey.wav to the Flex file animals.flx. expack -c animals.flx duck.wav cat.wav cow.wav dog.wav Creates a new Flex file animals.flx containing duck.wav, cat.wav, cow.wav, and dog.wav. expack -x text.flx 17 Extracts the file at position 17fromtext.flxinto17.u7o. expack -x text.flx Extracts all files from text.flx into files named 0.u7o, 1.u7o, 2.u7o, etc. expack -i wavlist With wavlist reading: jmsfx.flx ant.wav bee.wav cat.wav will create a new Flex file jmsfx.flx consisting of ant.wav, bee.wav, andcat.wav. expack -l text.flx Lists the number and lenghts of files contained in text.flx. BUGS
The "Add" command (-a) does not work yet. AUTHOR
This manpage was written by Robert Bihlmeyer based on a text by Marc Winterrowd. It may be freely redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher. Exult 2002-03-23 expack(1)