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Festival

Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including... Created by The Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh

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Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced. Other groups release new languages for the system. And full tools and documentation for build new voices are available through Carnegie Mellon's FestVox project (http://festvox.org )... More Info »

The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and HTML.

Festival is free software. Festival and the speech tools are distributed under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike.

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Festival was added by qubodup in Jan 2012 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2014. It's possible to update the information on Festival or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Festival is discontinued

The program is no longer updated and seems not to work.

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