The quality command becomes available when using ebook2cw as a tone generator, and allows you to set the MP3 quality of the destination MP3 file. quality accepts values of integers from 1 (highest quality) through to 9 (lowest quality).
require "cw"
cw do
puts 'quality = 9 (worst)'
use_ebook2cw
word_count 4
print_letters
end
cw do
puts 'quality = 1 (best)'
use_ebook2cw
quality 1
word_count 4
print_letters
end