TEXT2WAVE(1)

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👑 TEXT2WAVE(1) — the General Commands Manual glow-up

okay bestie, welcome to the manual for text2wave, straight out of the General Commands Manual energy 💖. She takes your text and hands you back a .wav file, and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

text2wave — convert text to .wav files 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

text2wave [options] < text > sound.wav

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this script is part of the festival text-to-speech system, periodt. It's literally a wrapper around festival's Scheme code so you can use it easily in your TTS scripts — no cap, that's the whole job. 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • -mode string — the explicit tts mode. just. say it. out loud. 🗣️
  • -o ofile — the file to save your waveform to. the default is stdout, so if you don't say anything she just screams the audio at your terminal 🙈
  • -otype string — the output waveform type: alaw, ulaw, snd, aiff, riff, nist etc. the default is riff ✨
  • -f integer — output frequency. the hertz. the vibe check. 🔥
  • -scale float — volume factor. turn her up or down, your call 🎚️
  • -eval string — a file or lisp s-expression to be evaluated before synthesis. like, prep work before the main character performs 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

More than you can imagine. 😭 fr fr, that's the actual quote.

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 🫶

no like seriously, they can't promise they'll have time to fix your bug, but they'd still appreciate the email. send it anyway bestie 💌

🎀 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

and that's the whole thing, bestie 🧚 this page is from the General Commands Manual (that's the TEXT2WAVE(1) energy at the top and bottom, iykyk), dated 6th Apr 1998 — yeah, she's an elder but she ATE and she's still serving 🌈⭐ love that for her 💖

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