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