How to Use Screen

HTS voices take a really long time to train. Screen lets you disconnect (close your laptop, be on flaky wifi) without losing your session. All you have to do is, when you first log into a speech lab machine, run:

screen

You will then be in a screen session, and you can close your terminal without losing your work. To get back your session, log in again to the same machine and run:

screen -r

You can have multiple screen sessions on the same machine, and when you run screen -r you'll get a list of them with numerical IDs. To pick a specific one, you can type:

screen -r id

You might find it easier to use multiple screen sessions if you name them, rather than relying on the numerical IDs. To start a screen session with a name you choose, run:

screen -S yourname

Then, to get that session back, you can run:

screen -r yourname