If you have a text file with something in it that you want to hear, use the following command. You can use tab here to quickly find the file that you are looking for. This was working in Festival within its interactive shell mode. You could also call Festival from the command prompt. For more information on using Festival, check out the MAN pages.
More documentation is available in texinfo and HTML format.
Typing help at the festival prompt brings up a list of useful commands. Hope you found this tutorial interesting and helpful in increasing your productivity. Do write in telling me the various ways you played around with Festival. Festival home page Other articles by Trevor Warren Article rating Poor Good . The comments are owned by the poster.