FREEPHONE(1)

📦 version 1.0m, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 FREEPHONE 💖

ok bestie so welcome to the manual for freephone, the English Text-To-Phoneme converter, section 1 of the General Commands Manual 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

freephone — English Text-To-Phoneme converter. that's the whole vibe. text goes in, phonemes come out 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

freephone [-i file] [-o file] [-h dictionary]

look at her. three little options. icon behavior honestly 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea: freephone converts English text into phonemes for the mbrola speech synthesizer. that's literally her whole job and she eats every time 🔥

usually she acts like a filter — she eats English text on the standard input and produces phonemes on the standard output. very demure, very filter.

and when you pair her up with mbrola? full English TTS, no cap. complete text-to-speech, the whole package 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

freephone understands the following command line options. she's fluent, she gets it.

  • -i <file> — Input text file, or - for standard input, which is the default. so if you just pipe stuff in, that's this 🫶
  • -o <file> — Output file, or - for standard output, which is the default. pipes out, phonemes out, slay ✨
  • -h <dictionary> — Use a pronunciation dictionary in hash format (no default, she doesn't have one built in, you gotta bring your own), such as the one provided by enlex(1). it's giving "supply your own dictionary" energy 📖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go check them out, the friend group is cute 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Alistair Conkie <adc@cstr.ed.ac.uk>

this manual page was written by Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru> especially for the Debian package 💖

and that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading 🥹 this was the General Commands Manual, FREEPHONE(1) edition, signed sealed and dated January 23, 2010 💫 mwah 💅

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