# festival

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

     echo 'Hello G-Streamer!' | gst-launch-1.0 fdsrc fd=0 ! festival ! wavparse ! audioconvert ! alsasink

## Hierarchy

    GObject
        ╰──GInitiallyUnowned
            ╰──GstObject
                ╰──GstElement
                    ╰──festival

## Factory details

Authors: – Wim Taymans

Classification: – `Filter/Effect/Audio`

Rank – none

Plugin – festival

Package – GStreamer Bad Plug-ins

## Pad Templates

### `sink`

    text/x-raw:
             format: utf8

Presence – always

Direction – sink

Object type – GstPad

### `src`

    audio/x-wav:

Presence – always

Direction – src

Object type – GstPad

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