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When I enter Festival via the command:

festival -q

and attempt to utilize SayText, I get the following error:

festival> (SayText "hello")
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : SayText

Why does this happen? I thought Festival came equipped with SayText. Do I need to install something else in order to get this to work?

techraf
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potatopaws
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Your issue lies in the "-q" you passed to festival when you launched the interactive shell. The man pages state that "-q Load no default setup files", which is causing SayText to not be bound.

I suggest you run your test exactly as follows:

$ festival

Which will launch festival in interaction mode, prefacing your shell with "festival>"

At this point you can run your SayText command like so:

$ (SayText "hello)
Greg Hilston
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