Festival::Client::Async - Perl client module for Festival servers ----------------------------------------------------------------- David Huggins-Daines , Cepstral LLC http://www.cepstral.com/ March 27, 2001 About ----- This module provides a flexible interface for writing clients for Festival speech synthesis servers. It is not limited to speaking text to the local audio device; rather, any Scheme expression can be evaluated on the server and all types of results can be captured, including evaluation results and waveform data. It also provides both blocking and non-blocking modes of operation. The latter is ideal for event-driven programs (such as Gtk+ or Tk programs, or POE machines). See the POD documentation included with the module for more information. Installation ------------ In general, the following sequence of commands should be fine: perl Makefile.PL make test make install Please send reports on installation or test failure to the address at the top of this file.