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