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It's time to learn Scheme
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation's lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses? Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in common use, and Scheme is a streamlined dialect of Lisp. Many universities use Scheme as the language to introduce students to the Computer Science curriculum, and some of their teaching methods are based on the assumption that Scheme is the one language they can count on their students knowing. Even so, many active programmers and system administrators are unfamiliar with Scheme. This article will get you on your way to adding this tool to your developer or sysadmin toolkit.


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text2wave

TEXT2WAVE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      TEXT2WAVE(1)

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

								   6th Apr 1998 						      TEXT2WAVE(1)