NAME

       flite - A small simple speech synthesizer

SYNOPSIS

       flite [OPTION]... TEXTFILE [WAVEFILE]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  flite  command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation  in
       /usr/share/doc/flite/

       Converts  text  in  TEXTFILE  to  a  waveform  in WAVEFILE.  If text contains a space, it is treated as a
       literal textstring and spoken, and not as a file name.  if WAVEFILE is unspecified or "play"  the  result
       is played on the current systems audio device.  If WAVEFILE is "none" the waveform is discarded (good for
       benchmarking)

OPTIONS

       --version
              Output flite version number.

       -?, --help
              Output usage information.

       -o WAVEFILE
              Explicitly set output filename.

       -f TEXTFILE
              Explicitly set input filename.

       -t TEXT
              Explicitly set input text string.

       -p PHONES
              Explicitly set input text string and synthesize as phones.

       -s, --set FEATURE=VALUE
              Set feature (guesses type).

       --seti FEATURE=VALUE
              Set int feature.

       --setf FEATURE=VALUE
              Set float feature.

       --sets FEATURE=VALUE
              Set string feature.

       -b     Benchmark mode.

       -l     Loop endlessly.

       -v     Verbose output.

SEE ALSO

       flite_time(1), t2p(1), festival(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
       be used by others).

                                                February 25, 2003                                       FLITE(1)