festival_client(1)

FESTIVAL(1) General Commands Manual FESTIVAL(1)

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

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

1st Aug 1997