FESTIVAL(1)

🎀 FESTIVAL(1) — festival_client and the General Commands Manual vibe 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

festival_client — client access to festiva; text-to-speech server mode

okay yes, the original really says festiva and later festival-clinet — I’m keeping the facts exactly as they are, no cap. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

festival_client [options] [file0] [file1] ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Allows sending commands and/or test to a festival test-to-speech server. Yep, test and test-to-speech are exactly what the page says — not me fixing the spelling, bestie. 🙈

Festival may be started in server mode using the option --server. 🌀

festival-clinet allows waveforms ot be generated faster as not time is required for start up. See the festival manual for more details on recommended use. ⚡

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

okay bestie, here’s every single flag, no skips, no summaries. 💅

• --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. Default is {riff}. 🎵
• --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, ngl. 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

mwah 💋 — original footer energy: this is FESTIVAL(1), dated 1st Aug 1997. 🫶