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> {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 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)