7.3 Getting some help

If no audio is generated then you must check to see if audio is properly initialized on your machine. See Audio output.

In the command interpreter m-h (meta-h) will give you help on the current symbol before the cursor. This will be a short description of the function or variable, how to use it and what its arguments are. A listing of all such help strings appears at the end of this document. m-s will synthesize and say the same information, but this extra function is really just for show.

The lisp function manual will send the appropriate command to an already running Netscape browser process. If nil is given as an argument the browser will be directed to the tables of contents of the manual. If a non-nil value is given it is assumed to be a section title and that section is searched and if found displayed. For example

festival> (manual "Accessing an utterance")

Another related function is manual-sym which given a symbol will check its documentation string for a cross reference to a manual section and request Netscape to display it. This function is bound to m-m and will display the appropriate section for the given symbol.

Note also that the TAB key can be used to find out the name of commands available as can the function Help (remember the parentheses).

For more up to date information on Festival regularly check the Festival Home Page at

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html

Further help is available by mailing questions to

festival-help@cstr.ed.ac.uk

Although we cannot guarantee the time required to answer you, we will do our best to offer help.

Bug reports should be submitted to

festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk

If there is enough user traffic a general mailing list will be created so all users may share comments and receive announcements. In the mean time watch the Festival Home Page for news.