debian man page for text2wave

TEXT2WAVE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      TEXT2WAVE(1)

NAME
       text2wave - convert text to .wav files

SYNOPSIS
       text2wave [options] < text > sound.wav

DESCRIPTION
       This script is part of the festival text-to-speech system.  It is a wrapper for festival's Scheme code for easy usage in TTS scripts.

OPTIONS
       -mode  string
	      Explicit tts mode.

       -o     ofile
	      File to save waveform to.
	      The default is stdout.

       -otype string
	      Output waveform type: alaw, ulaw, snd, aiff, riff, nist etc.
	      The default is riff.

       -f     integer
	      Output frequency.

       -scale float
	      Volume factor.

       -eval  string
	      File or lisp s-expression to be evaluated before synthesis.

BUGS
       More than you can imagine.

       A manual with much detail (though not complete) is available in distributed as part of the system and is also accessible at
       http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/

       Although we cannot guarantee the time required to fix bugs, we would appreciated it if they were reported to
       festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk

AUTHOR
       Alan W Black, Richard Caley and Paul Taylor
       (C) Centre for Speech Technology Research, 1996-1998
       University of Edinburgh
       80 South Bridge
       Edinburgh EH1 1HN
       http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html

								   6th Apr 1998 						      TEXT2WAVE(1)