man text2wave (Commandes) - convert text to .wav files

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