NAME¶
festival_client - client access to festiva; text-to-speech server mode
SYNOPSIS¶
festival_client [options] [file0] [file1] ...
DESCRIPTION¶
Allows sending commands and/or test to a festival test-to-speech server.
Festival may be started in server mode using the option
--server
festival-client allows waveforms to be generated faster as not time is required
for start up. See the festival manual for more details on recommended use.
OPTIONS¶
- --server <string>
- hostname (or IP number) of server
- --port <int> {1314}
- port number of server process (1314)
- --output <string>
- file to save output waveform to
- --otype <string> {riff}
- output type for waveform
- --passwd <string>
- server passwd in plain text (optional)
- --prolog <string>
- filename containing commands to be sent to the server
before standard commands (useful when using --ttw)
- --async
- Asynchronous mode, server may send back multiple waveforms
per text file
- --ttw
- Text to waveform: take text from first arg or stdin get
server to return waveform(s) stored in output or operated on by
aucommand.
- --withlisp
- Output lisp replies from server.
- --tts_mode <string>
- TTS mode for file (default is fundamental).
- --aucommand <string>
- command to be applied to each waveform retruned from
server. Use $FILE in string to refer to waveform file
BUGS¶
This still isn't as general as it should be. It seems to require lots of special
little options which suggests the general options aren't right.
AUTHOR¶
Alan W Black and Paul Taylor
(C) Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html