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<H1><A NAME="SEC37" HREF="festival_toc.html#TOC37">11 Emacs interface</A></H1>
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One easy method of using Festival is via an Emacs interface
that allows selection of text regions to be sent to Festival for
rendering as speech.
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<TT>`festival.el'</TT> offers a new minor mode which offers
an extra menu (in emacs-19 and 20) with options for saying a selected
region, or a whole buffer, as well as various general control
functions. To use this you must install <TT>`festival.el'</TT> in
a directory where Emacs can find it, then add to your
<TT>`.emacs'</TT> in your home directory the following lines.
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(autoload 'say-minor-mode "festival" "Menu for using Festival." t)
(say-minor-mode t)
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Successive calls to <CODE>say-minor-mode</CODE> will toggle the minor
mode, switching the <SAMP>`say'</SAMP> menu on and off.
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Note that the optional voice selection offered by the language sub-menu
is not sensitive to actual voices supported by the your Festival
installation. Hand customization is require in the <TT>`festival.el'</TT>
file. Thus some voices may appear in your menu that your Festival
doesn't support and some voices may be supported by your Festival
that do not appear in the menu.
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When the Emacs Lisp function <CODE>festival-say-buffer</CODE> or the
menu equivalent is used the Emacs major mode is passed to Festival
as the text mode.
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