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> {1000000}
- 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