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A program and a library that can be used as a musical instrument synthesizer or for Ukrainian speech synthesis especially for poets, translators and writers.

Documentation

main :: IO ()

The function creates a raw .ul sound file with bitrate 22050 Hz 1 mono channel and tries to automatically convert it to the .wav, .ogg, or .flac file with the same parameters specified by the first command line argument (for more details see: genControl function) using the system binary SoX (this is done for one circle of running, afterwards it is repeated with the same command line arguments. To stop execution, please, interrupt the program e. g. with Ctrl + C on many Unix platforms). So actually, it can create multiple sound files, all in the same format options specified by the first command line argument accordingly to the genControl function.

If SoX binaries are not installed properly, the program makes ending informational message for the user.

The first command line argument is the genControl specification.

The second command line argument (if specified) must be in the form "+O" and then if specified denotes that the program cycle runs only once and exits after creating the single converted sound file. If specified, then the program reads not the line of the input, but the contents and, therefore, it can use multiline contents (e. g., poetry).

The third command line argument is the filepath to the file with the Ukrainian text that instead of the user input provided otherwise into the prompting line on the terminal is read to be converted.

The best comression ratio is with the .ogg files, but they lose some quality so be careful if you need it.