1FESTIVAL(1)                 General Commands Manual                FESTIVAL(1)
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NAME

6       festival_client - client access to festiva; text-to-speech server mode
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SYNOPSIS

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

14       Allows  sending  commands  and/or  test  to  a  festival test-to-speech
15       server.  Festival may be  started  in  server  mode  using  the  option
16       --server
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18       festival-clinet  allows waveforms ot be generated faster as not time is
19       required for start up.  See the festival manual  for  more  details  on
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OPTIONS

24       --server <string>
25               hostname (or IP number) of server
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27       --port <int> {1314}
28               port number of server process (1314)
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30       --output <string>
31               file to save output waveform to
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33       --otype <string> {riff}
34               output type for waveform
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36       --passwd <string>
37               server passwd in plain text (optional)
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39       --prolog <string>
40               filename  containing  commands  to be sent to the server before
41               standard commands (useful when using --ttw)
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43       --async Asynchronous mode, server may send back multiple waveforms  per
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46       --ttw   Text  to waveform: take text from first arg or stdin get server
47               to return waveform(s) stored in output or operated on by aucom‐
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53       --tts_mode <string>
54               TTS mode for file (default is fundamental).
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57               command  to  be  applied to each waveform retruned from server.
58               Use $FILE in string to refer to waveform file
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BUGS

61       This still isn't as general as it should be.  It seems to require  lots
62       of  special  little  options  which suggests the general options aren't
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AUTHOR

67       Alan W Black and Paul Taylor
68       (C) Centre for Speech Technology Research
69       University of Edinburgh
70       80 South Bridge
71       Edinburgh EH1 1HN
72       http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
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