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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 sim-
       ply 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 paran-
       thesis are treated as literal commands and evaluated.


OPTIONS
       -q      Load no default setup files

       --libdir 
	       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 
	       Run in named language, default is english, spanish  and	welsh
	       are available

       --server
	       Run in server mode waiting for clients of server_port (1314)

       --script
	       	Used  in  #!  scripts, runs in batch mode on file and
	       passes all other args to Scheme

       --heap  {500000}
	       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 dis-
       tributed 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



				 6th Apr 1998			  FESTIVAL(1)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. as
2. file
3. setup
4. batch
5. size
6. time