flite(1)

flite1

A small simple speech synthesizer

Usage

flite [OPTION] ... TEXTFILE [WAVEFILE]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the flite command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in /usr/share/doc/flite/

Converts text in TEXTFILE to a waveform in WAVEFILE. If text contains a space, it is treated as a literal textstring and spoken, and not as a file name. if WAVEFILE is unspecified or "play" the result is played on the current systems audio device. If WAVEFILE is "none" the waveform is discarded (good for benchmarking)

Options

--version

Output flite version number.

-?, --help

Output usage information.

-o WAVEFILE

Explicitly set output filename.

-f TEXTFILE

Explicitly set input filename.

-t TEXT

Explicitly set input text string.

-p PHONES

Explicitly set input text string and synthesize as phones.

-s, --set FEATURE=VALUE

Set feature (guesses type).

--seti FEATURE=VALUE

Set int feature.

--setf FEATURE=VALUE

Set float feature.

--sets FEATURE=VALUE

Set string feature.

-b

Benchmark mode.

-l

Loop endlessly.

-v

Verbose output.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.1–5.0
  2. 6.0–13

Author

This manual page was written by Mario Lang <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From flite 2.2-7 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.