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 --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
1st Aug 1997 FESTIVAL(1)
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TEXT2WAVE(1) General Commands Manual TEXT2WAVE(1)NAME
text2wave - convert text to .wav files
SYNOPSIS
text2wave [options] < text > sound.wav
DESCRIPTION
This script is part of the festival text-to-speech system. It is a wrapper for festival's Scheme code for easy usage in TTS scripts.
OPTIONS -mode string
Explicit tts mode.
-o ofile
File to save waveform to.
The default is stdout.
-otype string
Output waveform type: alaw, ulaw, snd, aiff, riff, nist etc.
The default is riff.
-f integer
Output frequency.
-scale float
Volume factor.
-eval string
File or lisp s-expression to be evaluated before synthesis.
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 TEXT2WAVE(1)
I finally got festival text 2 speech to work. I followed a set of instructions but had to make edits to set it up to work (albeit a few warnings). At the end I tried using quit with double quotes inside parentheses and without but could not stop the program (i.e. comes back with "festival>"). ... (0 Replies)
I installed festival under /opt/TTS so presume that precedes in the following unless noted otherwise.
I examined festival/lib/siteinit.scm and found the default voice was: voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts (which I did not include with the install) which doesn't matter because the lin is commented... (0 Replies)
I would imagine that it is possible to have a command's on-screen output placed into a text file; the difficulty I'm having is in getting that text file saved on the local server, while issuing the command on the remote server
Thanks!
-AJ
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