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.TH FREEPHONE 1 "January 23, 2010"
.SH NAME
freephone \- English Text-To-Phoneme converter
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B freephone
[\fB\-i\fR \fIfile\fR] [\fB\-o\fR \fIfile\fR] [\fB\-h\fR \fIdictionary\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBfreephone\fP converts English text to phonemes for \fBmbrola\fP
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 \fBmbrola\fP it provides complete
English TTS.
.SH OPTIONS
\fBfreephone\fP understands the following command line options.
.TP
.B \-i <file>
.br
Input text file or \fB\-\fP for standard input (default).
.TP
.B \-o <file>
.br
Output file or \fB\-\fP for standard output (default).
.TP
.B \-h <dictionary>
.br
Use pronunciation dictionary in hash format (no default), such as the
one provided by enlex(1).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lexholder\-en (1),
.BR mbrola (1).
.SH AUTHOR
Alistair Conkie <adc@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
.PP
This manual page was written by Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru>
especially for the Debian package.
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