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festival(1)


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 parenthesis 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,  russian,
           welsh and others 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

                             6th Apr 1998                      FESTIVAL(1)



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