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FESTIVAL(1)		     General Commands Manual		     FESTIVAL(1)

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  com-
     mand  interpreter.   When in tts mode input is rendered as speech.  When in
     command mode filenames that start with a left paranthesis	are  treated  as
     literal commands and evaluated.

OPTIONS
     -q      Load no default setup files

     --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 re-
	     turn 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> {10000000}
	     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 appre-
     ciated 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

				  6th Apr 1998			     FESTIVAL(1)

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