## festival festival — Synthesizes plain text into audio |

## Synopsis

    struct              GstFestival;

## Object Hierarchy

      GObject
       +----GstObject
             +----GstElement
                   +----GstFestival

## Description

This element connects to a festival server process and uses it to synthesize speech. Festival need to run already in server mode, started as

    festival --server

### Example pipeline

    1
    echo 'Hello G-Streamer!' | gst-launch fdsrc fd=0 ! festival ! wavparse ! audioconvert ! alsasink

## Synopsis

### Element Information

plugin | festival
author | Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be>
class | Filter/Effect/Audio

### Element Pads

name | sink
direction | sink
presence | always
details | text/plain

name | src
direction | source
presence | always
details | audio/x-wav

## Details

### struct GstFestival

    struct GstFestival;