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NAME

6       festival - a text-to-speech system.
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SYNOPSIS

9       festival [options] [file0] [file1] ...
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DESCRIPTION

14       Festival is a general purpose text-to-speech system.  As well as simply
15       rendering text as speech it can be used in an interactive command  mode
16       for testing and developing various aspects of speech synthesis technol‐
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19       Festival has two major modes, command and tts  (text-to-speech).   When
20       in  command  mode  input (from file or interactively) is interpreted by
21       the command interpreter.  When in tts mode input is rendered as speech.
22       When  in  command mode filenames that start with a left paranthesis are
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OPTIONS

27       -q      Load no default setup files
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29       --datadir <string>
30               Set data directory pathname
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32       --libdir <string>
33               Set library directory pathname
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35       -b      Run in batch mode (no interaction)
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37       --batch Run in batch mode (no interaction)
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39       --tts   Synthesize text in files as speech no  files  means  read  from
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42       -i      Run in interactive mode (default)
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44       --interactive
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47       --pipe  Run in pipe mode, reading commands from stdin, but no prompt or
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50       --language <string>
51               Run in named language, default is english,  spanish  and  welsh
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54       --server
55               Run in server mode waiting for clients of server_port (1314)
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57       --script
58               <ifile>  Used  in  #!  scripts,  runs in batch mode on file and
59               passes all other args to Scheme
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61       --heap <int> {10000000}
62               Set size of Lisp heap, should not normally need to  be  changed
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65       -v      Display version number and exit
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67       --version
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BUGS

71       More than you can imagine.
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73       A  manual  with  much detail (though not complete) is available in dis‐
74       tributed as part of the system and is also accessible at
75       http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/
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77       Although we cannot guarantee the time required to fix  bugs,  we  would
78       appreciated it if they were reported to
79       festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk
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AUTHOR

83       Alan W Black, Richard Caley and Paul Taylor
84       (C) Centre for Speech Technology Research, 1996-1998
85       University of Edinburgh
86       80 South Bridge
87       Edinburgh EH1 1HN
88       http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
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