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<h3 class="section">7.3 Getting some help</h3>

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<p>If no audio is generated then you must check to see if audio is
properly initialized on your machine. See <a href="Audio-output.html#Audio-output">Audio output</a>.
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<p>In the command interpreter <tt class="key">m-h</tt> (meta-h) will give you help
on the current symbol before the cursor.  This will be a short
description of the function or variable, how to use it and what
its arguments are.  A listing of all such help strings appears
at the end of this document.  <tt class="key">m-s</tt> will synthesize and say
the same information, but this extra function is really just for show.
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<p>The lisp function <code>manual</code> will send the appropriate command to an
already running Netscape browser process.  If <code>nil</code> is given as an
argument the browser will be directed to the tables of contents of the
manual.  If a non-nil value is given it is assumed to be a section title
and that section is searched and if found displayed.  For example
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<pre class="example">festival&gt; (manual &quot;Accessing an utterance&quot;)
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<p>Another related function is <code>manual-sym</code> which given a symbol will
check its documentation string for a cross reference to a manual
section and request Netscape to display it.  This function is
bound to <tt class="key">m-m</tt> and will display the appropriate section for
the given symbol.
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<p>Note also that the <tt class="key">TAB</tt> key can be used to find out the name
of commands available as can the function <code>Help</code> (remember the
parentheses).
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<p>For more up to date information on Festival regularly check
the Festival Home Page at
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<pre class="example"><a href="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html">http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html</a>
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<p>Further help is available by mailing questions to
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<pre class="example">festival-help@cstr.ed.ac.uk
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<p>Although we cannot guarantee the time required to answer you, we
will do our best to offer help.
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<p>Bug reports should be submitted to
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<pre class="example">festival-bug@cstr.ed.ac.uk
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<p>If there is enough user traffic a general mailing list will be
created so all users may share comments and receive announcements.
In the mean time watch the Festival Home Page for news.
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