Comment 9 for bug 692996

And this "festival --server" is a very unsafe solution due to the design of festival server mode.
Any other local user will only need to use the command:

> telnet localhost 1314
> (system "ls")

Basically you are opening a user shell to anyone with access to localhost. This:

- Gives access to your shell to any other local user (which is dangerous if there are other users in your computer)

- Gives access to your shell to any malicious website you visit that uses a DNS rebinding attack (dangerous, unless you don't visit websites or you disable javascript).See https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/147175/is-http-to-localhost-safe

We need a better alternative to this "festival --server" solution. Festival was designed with speech synthesis research purposes in mind, not as a user robust TTS system.