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6 festival - a text-to-speech system.
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9 festival [options] [file0] [file1] ...
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14 Festival is a general purpose text-to-speech system. As well as simply
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19 Festival has two major modes, command and tts (text-to-speech). When
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75 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/
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84 (C) Centre for Speech Technology Research, 1996-1998
85 University of Edinburgh
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87 Edinburgh EH1 1HN
88 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
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