PICO2AUDIO(1)

NAME
pico2audio - text-to-speech wrapper for pico2wave

SYNOPSIS

pico2audio [-l <language>] [words]

DESCRIPTION

pico2audio is a shell script wrapper for pico2wave. It renders text to speech and plays it using the play command.

If a -l <language> option is given, it will be passed to pico2wave. See pico2wave(1) for details.

If words are given, they are used as input. Unlike the pico2wave command, there's no requirement to quote multiple words. If no words are given, words are read from standard input.

Exit status is that of pico2wave.

EXAMPLES

Examples:

pico2audio Hello world.
    Speaks "Hello world" in the default language (en-US).

pico2audio -l en-GB Hello world.
    As above, in a British accent.

fortune -s | pico2audio
    Reads from standard input.

pico2audio < /etc/motd
    Speak a text file. Don't forget the < or it says the filename instead.

AUTHOR

pico2audio was written by B. Watson, and is licensed under the WTFPL.

SEE ALSO

pico2wave(1), play(1)