.TH  TEXT2WAVE 1 "6th Apr 1998"
.SH NAME
text2wave \- convert text to .wav files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B text2wave
.I [options]
<
.I text
>
.I sound.wav


.SH 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.

.SH OPTIONS
.\"
.\".SH OPTIONS
.\"  -mode <string>  Explicit tts mode.
.\"  -o ofile        File to save waveform (default is stdout).
.\"  -otype <string> Output waveform type: alaw, ulaw, snd, aiff, riff, nist etc.
.\"                  (default is riff)
.\"  -F <int>        Output frequency.
.\"  -scale <float>  Volume factor
.\"  -eval <string>  File or lisp s-expression to be evaluated before
.\"                  synthesis.

.TP
.B \-mode
.I string
.br
Explicit tts mode.
.TP
.B \-o
.I ofile
.br
File to save waveform to.
.br
The default is
.B stdout.
.TP
.B \-otype
.I string
.br
Output waveform type: alaw, ulaw, snd, aiff, riff, nist etc.
.br
The default is
.B riff.
.TP
.B \-f
.I integer
.br
Output frequency.
.TP
.B \-scale
.I float
.br
Volume factor.
.TP
.B \-eval
.I "string"
.br
File or lisp s-expression to be evaluated before synthesis.

.SH 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
.br
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 
.br
festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk

.SH AUTHOR
Alan W Black, Richard Caley and Paul Taylor
.br
(C) Centre for Speech Technology Research, 1996-1998
.br
University of Edinburgh
.br
80 South Bridge
.br
Edinburgh EH1 1HN
.br
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html