14 Utterances

The utterance structure lies at the heart of Festival. This chapter describes its basic form and the functions available to manipulate it.

• Utterance structure: internal structure of utterances
• Utterance types: Type defined synthesis actions
• Example utterance types: Some example utterances
• Utterance modules
• Accessing an utterance: getting the data from the structure
• Features: Features and features names
• Utterance I/O: Saving and loading utterances