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)