festival --version (return code: 0)
festival: Festival Speech Synthesis System: 2.4:release December 2014
festival --help (return code: 0)
Usage: festival Usage:
festival <options> <file0> <file1> ...
In evaluation mode "filenames" starting with ( are evaluated inline
Festival Speech Synthesis System: 2.4:release December 2014
-q Load no default setup files
--datadir <string>
Set data directory pathname
--libdir <string>
Set library directory pathname
-b Run in batch mode (no interaction)
--batch Run in batch mode (no interaction)
--tts Synthesize text in files as speech
no files means read from stdin
(implies no interaction by default)
-i Run in interactive mode (default)
--interactive
Run in interactive mode (default)
--pipe Run in pipe mode, reading commands from
stdin, but no prompt or return values
are printed (default if stdin not a tty)
--language <string>
Run in named language, default is
english, spanish, russian, welsh and others are available
--server Run in server mode waiting for clients
of server_port (1314)
--script <ifile>
Used in #! scripts, runs in batch mode on
file and passes all other args to Scheme
--heap <int> {10000000}
Set size of Lisp heap, should not normally need
to be changed from its default
-v Display version number and exit
--version Display version number and exit