---
name: "freephone"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "freephone"
version: "1.0m-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/freephone"
---

# freephone(1)

English Text-To-Phoneme converter

## NAME

freephone - English Text-To-Phoneme converter

## SYNOPSIS

**freephone** \[**-i** *file*\] \[**-o** *file*\] \[**-h** *dictionary*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**freephone** converts English text to phonemes for **mbrola** speech synthesizer. Usually this program acts like a filter eating English text on the standard input and producing phonemes on the standard output. In conjunction with **mbrola** it provides complete English TTS.

## OPTIONS

**freephone** understands the following command line options.

- **-i \<file\>**

  Input text file or **-** for standard input (default).

- **-o \<file\>**

  Output file or **-** for standard output (default).

- **-h \<dictionary\>**

  Use pronunciation dictionary in hash format (no default), such as the one provided by enlex(1).

## SEE ALSO

[**lexholder-en**(1)](/lexholder-en/1.md), [**mbrola**(1)](/mbrola/1.md).

## AUTHOR

Alistair Conkie \<adc@cstr.ed.ac.uk\>

This manual page was written by Igor B. Poretsky \<poretsky@mlbox.ru\> especially for the Debian package.