freephone - English Text-To-Phoneme converter

       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)

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.

       freephone - English Text-To-Phoneme converter

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).

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

freephone [-ifile] [-ofile] [-hdictionary]