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