Festival Speech Synthesis System
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Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh.
It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, 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 customization and extension.[1]
The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systematic 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.
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[edit] Festvox
Festvox is a suite of tools for building synthetic voices for Festival.
[edit] Flite
Flite is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System, originally from the University of Edinburgh, and the [Festvox] project from Carnegie Mellon University.
[edit] Gstreamer
There is a Festival plug-in for GStreamer.
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- CMU Sphinx
- Flinger - FestivaL sINGER. Midi -> Festival -> synthesized singing..
- MBROLA, which Festival can optionally use as a back-end
