NAME
tonegen - Test the Voicetronix programmable tone generator
SYNOPSIS
tonegen [options]
DESCRIPTION
The tonegen utility uses the programmable tone generator to send tones to some port.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
- --card number
-
Explicitly select the card to test. Default is card 0.
- --port number
-
Explicitly select the port to test. Default is port 0 of the card being tested.
- --toneid num
-
Play a locale specific predefined tone, where 0 <= num < VPB_TONE_ID_MAX. The locale is decided according to the value of the VPB_COUNTRY environment variable.
- --tone n freq mag
-
Set a single component for a user defined tone. This option may be used more than once with different values of n to set the components of a multi-frequency tone. Legal values for the other parameters are 0 < freq <= 4000 (Hz), and -inf < mag < 0.0 (dB).
- --ontime ms
-
The number of milliseconds that a user defined tone should be on for.
- --offtime ms
-
The number of milliseconds that a user defined tone should be off for.
- --dial digits
-
Generates a dial string using the specified dtmf digits.
- --sync
-
Play tones using the synchronous api functions. The default is to use the async api.
- --loop
-
Loop cadenced tones continuously. Has no effect if a continuous tone has been specified.
- --recgain db
-
Set software record gain in dB. Default is 0.0
- --rec file
-
Record audio to a file while playing.
- --contest
-
Do not wait for a tone to complete before starting the next one. This can be useful for stress testing the coherency of the tone generator.
- --help, -?
-
Show summary of these options.
AUTHOR
Ron Lee, Voicetronix <[email protected]>
This manual page was written by Ron <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).