FESTIVAL
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 6th Apr 1998
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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 technology.
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
- --datadir <string>
-
Set data directory pathname
- --libdir <string>
-
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 <string>
-
Run in named language, default is
english, spanish and welsh are available
- --server
-
Run in server mode waiting for clients
of server_port (1314)
- --script
-
<ifile>
Used in #! scripts, runs in batch mode on
file and passes all other args to Scheme
- --heap <int> {10000000}
-
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 distributed 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