NAME
festival.pl - script converting textfile named $1
VERSION
version 20260408.1240
DESCRIPTION
The script reads the text file, and converts it to a speech audio file using festival. You need to setup the software yourself. In addition, make sure lame and oggenc are installed also.
NAME
festival.pl - convert text to speech
SYNOPSYS
festival.pl <input-text-file> <output-audio-file> <voice>
ARGUMENTS
- <input-text-file>
-
name of the file containing the text to convert to speech
- <output-audio-file>
-
name of the file (including extension) to write the speech audio to.
- <voice>
-
voice to use fo the text-to-speech generation. E.g. en1_mbrola
See the Festival/Festvox documentation for valid voices.
BUGS
No bugs have been reported so far. If you find any, please, send an e-mail to the author containing:
- - what you were trying;
- - enough data such that I can reproduce your attempt;
- - what strange behavior you observed;
- - what normal behavior you would have expected.
LINKS
AUTHOR
Walter Daems <wdaems@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2025 by Walter Daems.
This is free software, licensed under:
The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007CONTRIBUTOR
Paul Levrie