text2wave(1)

text2wave1

Convert text to .wav files

Usage

text2wave [options] < text > sound.wav

Overview

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.

Releases

Unchanged in 11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–13

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
[email protected]

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

From festival 1:2.5.0-11 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.