How do I run festival in server mode?

Festival 1.4.1 and later includes a script called festival_server which will start a festival server for you. For more information run:

festival_server --help

The simplest use of a the provided festival client connecting to this server would be:

echo "hello world" | festival_client --ttw | na_play

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