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- NAME
- festival - a text-to-speech system.
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- SYNOPSIS
- festival [options] [file0] [file1] ...
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- 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 technology.
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- Festival has two major modes, command and tts (text-to-
- speech). When in command mode input (from file or interac-
- tively) is interpreted by the command interpreter. When in
- tts mode input is rendered as speech.
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- OPTIONS
- -h print help information
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- -q Start without loading any initialization files.
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- --libdir PATH
- Specify alternate to default library directory (used
- for architecture-specific libraries and programs)
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- --datadir PATH
- Specify alternate to default shared-data directory (used
- in initializing the variable load-path, and for
- loading most initialisation files). Typically, the voice and
- dictionary files reside here.
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- -b or --batch
- Run in batch mode. In batch mode no input is read
- from standard input
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- -i or --interactive
- Run in interactive mode. In intteractive mode input
- (commands or text) is read from standard input.
- When in command mode (the default) a readline based
- Lisp read-eval-print command interpreter is
- presented.
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- --server
- Run in server mode. Any file arguments are loaded
- 9and interpreted, before going into server mode. In
- server mode Festival waits for clients on port 1314
- (by default). Note server mode can give unauthor-
- ised access to your machine, please read the section
- in the manual entitled Server/client API before
- using this mode.
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- --tts Run in tts mode. All files argument are treated
- as text files to be said. Unless interactive mode
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- is explicitly specified no input is read from stan-
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- --language LANG
- Where LANG is one of english (default) spanish or
- welsh. Select that language for basic operation,
- command or tts. This may be change during a session
- with the command select_language.
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- -v Display version number and exit.
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- BUGS
- More than you can imagine.
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- A manual with much detail (though not complete) is available
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- AUTHOR
- Alan W Black and Paul Taylor
- (C) Centre for Speech Technology Research
- University of Edinburgh
- 80 South Bridge
- Edinburgh EH1 1HN
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