festival.el

festival.el provides a simple interface into the festival speech synthesis program.

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festival.el provides a simple interface into the festival speech synthesis program. Commands include:

Command	Purpose
festival-start	Start a festival process
festival-stop	Stop a festival process
festival-say	Prompt for some text and say it
festival-read-file	Read the content of a file
festival-read-buffer	Read the content of the current buffer
festival-read-region	Read the content of the current active region
festival-intro	Play the standard festival intro
festival-voice-english-male	Select the standard English male voice
festival-voice-US-male	Select the standard US male voice
festival-voice	Prompt for and select a voice
festival-hook-doctor	Hook into the Emacs psychotherapist
festival-unhook-doctor	Unhook the Emacs psychotherapist
festival-hook-message	Read any message displayed in the minibuffer
festival-unhook-message	Stop reading any message displayed in the minibuffer
festival-hook-error	Read any error displayed in the minibuffer
festival-unhook-error	Stop reading any error displayed in the minibuffer
festival-describe-function	Read the description of a given Emacs function
festival-spook	Excite any hidden microphones

BTW, it was only once I'd more or less finished writing the first version of this that I noticed that a festival.el comes with festival itself (yeah, I know, I should spend more time examining the contents of software packages). As it is, I decided to press on with this anyway because I'd done a couple of different things and, more importantly, I was having far too much fun.