NAME
festival - a text-to-speech system. SYNOPSIS festival [options] [file0] [file1] ... DESCRIPTION
Festival is a general purpose text-to-speech system. As well as simply rendering text as speech it can be used in an interactive command mode for testing and developing various aspects of speech synthesis technol‐ ogy.
Festival has two major modes, command and tts (text-to-speech). When in command mode input (from file or interactively) is interpreted by the command interpreter. When in tts mode input is rendered as speech. When in command mode filenames that start with a left paranthesis are treated as literal commands and evaluated. OPTIONS
-q Load no default setup files libdir
Set library directory pathname -b Run in batch mode (no interaction) batch Run in batch mode (no interaction) tts Synthesize text in files as speech no files means read from stdin (implies no interaction by default)
-i Run in interactive mode (default) interactive Run in interactive mode (default) pipe Run in pipe mode, reading commands from stdin, but no prompt or return values are printed (default if stdin not a tty) language
Run in named language, default is english, spanish and welsh are available server Run in server mode waiting for clients of serverport (1314) script
Used in #! scripts, runs in batch mode on file and passes all other args to Scheme heap {1000000} Set size of Lisp heap, should not normally need to be changed from its default -v Display version number and exit version Display version number and exit BUGS More than you can imagine. A manual with much detail (though not complete) is available in dis‐ tributed as part of the system and is also accessible at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/ Although we cannot guarantee the time required to fix bugs, we would appreciated it if they were reported to
festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk AUTHOR Alan W Black, Richard Caley and Paul Taylor
(C) Centre for Speech Technology Research, 1996-1998 University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html 6th Apr 1998 FESTIVAL(1)