Festival Speech Synthesis System: - Speech Resource Pages

Ensure your audio device actually works the way you think it does. On Suns, the audio output device can be switched
into a number of different output modes, speaker, jack, headphones. If this is set to the wrong one you may not hear
the output. Use one of Sun's tools to change this (try `/usr/demo/SOUND/bin/soundtool'). Try to find an
audio file independent of Festival and get it to play on your audio. Once you have done that ensure that the audio
output method set in Festival matches that.
Once you have got it talking, test the audio spooling device.
festival> (intro)
This plays a short introduction of two sentences, spooling the audio output.
Finally exit from Festival (by end of file or (quit)) and test the script mode with.
$ examples/saytime
A test suite is included with Festival but it makes certain assumptions about which voices are installed. It assumes
that voice_rab_diphone (`festvox_rabxxxx.tar.gz') is the default voice and that
voice_ked_diphone and voice_don_diphone (`festvox_kedxxxx.tar.gz' and
`festvox_don.tar.gz') are installed. Also local settings in your `festival/lib/siteinit.scm' may
affect these tests. However, after installation it may be worth trying
gnumake test
from the `festival/' directory. This will do various tests including basic utterance tests and tokenization tests. It
also checks that voices are installed and that they don't interfere with each other. These tests are primarily regression
tests for the developers of Festival, to ensure new enhancements don't mess up existing supported features. They are
not designed to test an installation is successful, though if they run correctly it is most probable the installation has
worked.
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7. Quick start
This section is for those who just want to know the absolute basics to run the system.
Festival works in two fundamental modes, command mode and text-to-speech mode (tts-mode). In command mode,
information (in files or through standard input) is treated as commands and is interpreted by a Scheme interpreter. In
tts-mode, information (in files or through standard input) is treated as text to be rendered as speech. The default mode
is command mode, though this may change in later versions.
7.1 Basic command line options
7.2 Sample command driven session
7.3 Getting some help
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7.1 Basic command line options
Festival's basic calling method is as