Documentation for festival output in Linux

[Sonja Busch]

1.Concerncing a festival output with regard to speech recognition you can watch 
my animation video: 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqnjc2_german-teacher-tux-text-to-speech-
exp_creation

At the end of this video there are 3 pages of howto. 

2.Concering a festival output with regard to a singing voice please read the 
following summary: 

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1. Play a (music)XML-file with a festival command: 
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Open a terminal and insert: 

festival 


Then your prompt should look like  this: 

festival> 

Insert at this prompt the command (with brackets): 

(tts "/usr/share/doc/festival/examples/songs/daisy.xml" 'singing) 

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2. Create a WAV-File with a festival command of daisy.xml 
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Leave the festival prompt!!! (STRG and Z) 

Insert at the usual prompt: 

text2wave -mode singing "/usr/share/doc/festival/examples/songs/daisy.xml"  -o 
"/home/user/Desktop/daisy.wav“ 

Now you won't hear anything but the output file should be on your Desktop. 

Here is the text of the festival-file daisy.xml : 
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<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<!DOCTYPE SINGING PUBLIC "-//SINGING//DTD SINGING mark up//EN" 
      "Singing.v0_1.dtd" 
[]> 
<SINGING BPM="80"> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.0,1.0"><PITCH NOTE="F4,D4">Daisy</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.0,1.0"><PITCH NOTE="Bb3,F3">Daisy</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="G3">Give</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="A3">me</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.34"><PITCH NOTE="Bb3">your</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.67,0.33"><PITCH NOTE="G3,Bb3">answer</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.5"><PITCH NOTE="F3">do</PITCH></DURATION> 
<REST BEATS="0.5"></REST> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.0"><PITCH NOTE="C4">I'm</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.0"><PITCH NOTE="F4">half</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.0,1.0"><PITCH NOTE="D4,Bb3">crazy</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="G3">all</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="A3">for</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.34"><PITCH NOTE="Bb3">the</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.67"><PITCH NOTE="C4">love</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="D4">of</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.5"><PITCH NOTE="C4">you</PITCH></DURATION> 
<REST BEATS="0.17"></REST> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="D4">we</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="Eb4">don't</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="D4">need</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="C4">a</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.67,0.33"><PITCH NOTE="F4,D4">stylish</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33,1.0"><PITCH NOTE="C4,Bb3">marriage</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="C4">I</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.67"><PITCH NOTE="D4">can't</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33,0.67"><PITCH NOTE="Bb3,G3">afford</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="Bb3">a</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33,1.17"><PITCH NOTE="G3,F3">carriage</PITCH></DURATION> 
<REST BEATS="0.17"></REST> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="F3">but</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.67"><PITCH NOTE="Bb3">you'll</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="D4">look</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.67"><PITCH NOTE="C4">sweet</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33,0.67"><PITCH NOTE="F3,Bb3">upon</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="D4">the</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.34"><PITCH NOTE="C4">seat</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="D4">of</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="Eb4">a</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.34,0.33,0.33"><PITCH NOTE="F4,D4,Bb3">bicycle</PITCH>
</DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.67"><PITCH NOTE="C4">built</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="0.33"><PITCH NOTE="F3">for</PITCH></DURATION> 
<DURATION BEATS="1.0"><PITCH NOTE="Bb3">two</PITCH></DURATION> 
</SINGING> 
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Kind regards, 
Sonja Busch
Hamburg,Germany                  May 18, 2012