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Festival Speech Synthesis System




It offers a full Text To Speech system with various API s, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme -based Command Interpreter for general control.

The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systemic and better documented, making it possible for anyone to build a new voice. It is distributed under a Free Software License similar to the MIT License .


FESTVOX

Festvox is a suite of tools for building synthesized voices for Festival.


FLITE

Flite is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University . It is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University Of Edinburgh and the Festvox project from Carnegie Mellon University.


GSTREAMER

There is a Festival plug-in for GStreamer .


COMPILING FESTIVAL FOR LINUX

Compiling Festival requires 4 components: Festival itself, the speech tools pack, which must be compiled first, the lexicon, and a voice component.


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