---
name: "text2wave"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "festival"
version: "1:2.5.0-11"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/text2wave"
---

# text2wave(1)

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