Architecture: ids of Items in Relations

[Anonymous Student]

It seems as though Festival applies and interprets information in a linear fashion based on ID tags… Which is why all of the ID tags appear to be all out of order. Is this correct/is there a way to get Festival to print out all of the IDs in order?

[Simon]

Every time a new Item is created, it just gets assigned the next numerical id in sequence. So, the ids do not carry any human-friendly information and are best ignored. Sometimes an Item may be deleted, so not every numerical id will necessarily be present.

If you wanted to see all Items currently present in an Utterance, then you could save the utterance to a file using the utt.save command, and then open that file in a text editor such as Aquamacs.

festival> (utt.save myutt 'my_file_name.utt)

The file my_file_name.utt will be saved in whatever directory you were in when you started Festival. Note that the waveform is not saved within the utterance file.

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