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festival> (SayText "Good morning, welcome to Festival") # festival> Of course as history and command line editing are supported c-p or up-arrow will allow you to edit the above to whatever you wish. Festival may also synthesize from files rather than simply text. festival> (tts "myfile" nil) nil festival> The end of file character c-d will exit from Festival and return you to the shell, alternatively the command quit may be called (don't forget the parentheses). Rather than starting the command interpreter, Festival may synthesize files specified on the command line unix$ festival --tts myfile unix$ Sometimes a simple waveform is required from text that is to be kept and played at some later time. The simplest way to do this with festival is by using the `text2wave' program. This is a festival script that will take a file (or text from standard input) and produce a single waveform. An example use is text2wave myfile.txt -o myfile.wav Options exist to specify the waveform file type, for example if Sun audio format is required text2wave myfile.txt -otype snd -o myfile.wav Use `-h' on `text2wave' to see all options. [ < ] [ > ] [ > ] [Top] [Contents] [Index] [ ? ] 7.3 Getting some help If no audio is generated then you must check to see if audio is properly initialized on your machine. See section 23. Audio output. In the command interpreter m-h (meta-h) will give you help on the current symbol before the cursor. This will be a short description of the function or variable, how to use it and what its arguments are. A listing of all such help strings appears at the end of this document. m-s will synthesize and say the same information, but this extra function is really just for show. The lisp function manual will send the appropriate command to an already running Netscape browser process. If nil is given as an argument the browser will be directed to the tables of contents of the manual. If a non-nil value is given it is assumed to be a section title and that section is searched and if found displayed. For example festival> (manual "Accessing an utterance") Another related function is manual-sym which given a symbol will check its documentation string for a cross
eference to a manual section and request Netscape to display it. This function is bound to m-m and will display the appropriate section for the given symbol. Note also that the TAB key can be used to find out the name of commands available as can the function Help (remember the parentheses). For more up to date information on Festival regularly check the Festival Home Page at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html Further help is available by mailing questions to festival-help@cstr.ed.ac.uk Although we cannot guarantee the time required to answer you, we will do our best to offer help. Bug reports should be submitted to festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk If there is enough user traffic a general mailing list will be created so all users may share comments and receive announcements. In the mean time watch the Festival Home Page for news. [ < ] [ > ] [ > ] [Top] [Contents] [Index] [ ? ] 8. Scheme Many people seem daunted by the fact that Festival uses Scheme as its scripting language and feel they can't use Festival because they don't know Scheme. However most of those same people use Emacs everyday which also has (a much more complex) Lisp system underneath. The number of Scheme commands you actually need to know in Festival is really very small and you can easily just find out as you go along. Also people use the Unix shell often but only know a small fraction of actual commands available in the shell (or in fact that there even is a distinction between shell builtin commands and user definable ones). So take it easy, you'll learn the commands you need fairly quickly. 8.1 Scheme references Places to learn more about Scheme 8.2 Scheme fundamentals Syntax and semantics 8.3 Scheme Festival specifics 8.4 Scheme I/O [ < ] [ > ] [ > ] [Top] [Contents] [Index] [ ? ] 8.1 Scheme references If you wish to learn about Scheme in more detail I recommend the book abelson85. The Emacs Lisp documentation is reasonable as it is comprehensive and many of the underlying uses of Scheme in Festival were influenced by Emacs. Emacs Lisp however is not Scheme so there are some differences.
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Page 3 and 4: The Festival Speech Synthesis Syste
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Page 23 and 24: To convert a symbol whose print nam
Page 25 and 26: filter A Unix shell program filter
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Page 45 and 46: lexicon by over 90%. The function r
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The UniSyn_module_hooks are run bef
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for i in wave/*.wav do fname=`basen
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used on the signal, and/or up to th
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lib/voices/english/don_diphone/fest
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(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'irixa
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voice_el_diphone A male Castilian S
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) (PhoneSet.silences '(#)) Note som
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(set! spanish_phrase_cart_tree ' ((
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(us_diphone_init (list '(name "el_l
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(define (voice_giant) "comment comm
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25. Tools A number of basic data ma
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CART ::= QUESTION-NODE || ANSWER-NO
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(define (pos_cand_function w) ;; se
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some label files identify point typ
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Building the models and getting goo
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`./src/modules/diphone' An optional
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#include "festival.h" static LISP u
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In yout `Makefile' for this directo
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Every effort has been made to minim
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A typical example use of `festival_
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A simpler C only interface example
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29.2 Singing Synthesis As an intere
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Magisterarbeit, Institute of Natura
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B C adding new LISP objects 27.2.4
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F G H Edinburgh Speech Tools Librar
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M N O P load-path 6.3 Site initiali
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S resynthesis 14.7 Utterance I/O ru
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U V W ungrouped diphones 20.1 UniSy
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12. Phonesets 13. Lexicons 13.1 Lex
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