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2. Installation

festival-freebsoft-utils was tested with Festival 1.4.3. Other versions of Festival may or may not work.

Having SoX (http://sox.sourceforge.net) installed is strongly recommended, many festival-freebsoft-utils functions don't work without it.

As Festival does not support UTF-8 encoding, festival-freebsoft-utils uses the iconv utility for character coding conversions. iconv is a standard part of some (e.g. GNU) operating systems, if you don't have it you can install it as a part of the libiconv library available at http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/.

Installation itself is easy, just copy all the ‘*.scm’ files to one of the directories present in the Festival's load-path. This is typically ‘/usr/share/festival/’, you can get the exact list of the directories by evaluating load-path in the Festival command line interface. Then you can load the whole system at Festival startup by adding the line

 
(require 'speech-dispatcher)

to the Festival initialization file (typically ‘/etc/festival.scm’ system wide or ‘~/.festivalrc’ for a particular user). Note you needn't do this for Speech Dispatcher operation as Speech Dispatcher invokes this call itself.


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