NAME

       freephone - English Text-To-Phoneme converter

SYNOPSIS

       freephone [-i file] [-o file] [-h dictionary]

DESCRIPTION

       freephone converts English text to phonemes for mbrola speech synthesizer. Usually this program acts like
       a  filter  eating  English  text  on the standard input and producing phonemes on the standard output. In
       conjunction with mbrola it provides complete English TTS.

OPTIONS

       freephone understands the following command line options.

       -i <file>
              Input text file or - for standard input (default).

       -o <file>
              Output file or - for standard output (default).

       -h <dictionary>
              Use pronunciation dictionary in hash format (no default), such as the one provided by enlex(1).

SEE ALSO

       lexholder-en(1), mbrola(1).

AUTHOR

       Alistair Conkie <adc@cstr.ed.ac.uk>

       This manual page was written by Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru> especially for the Debian package.

                                                January 23, 2010                                    FREEPHONE(1)