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Festival - Speech synthsis system

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system. 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 control.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Latest versionhttp://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html
Version 1.4.2 (stable) released on 2001-06-21
Licensed under an X11-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available in HTML format from http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_toc.html; User manual available in PostScript format from http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival-1.4.0.ps.gz
Support contacts

Help List<festival-talk@cstr.ed.ac.uk> <majordomo@cstr.ed.ac.uk> body: subscribe festival-talk http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/lists.html
Developer List<festival-talk@cstr.ed.ac.uk> <majordomo@cstr.ed.ac.uk> body: subscribe festival-talk http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/lists.html
Bug List<festival-talk@cstr.ed.ac.uk> <majordomo@cstr.ed.ac.uk> body: subscribe festival-talk http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/lists.html

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC grant GR/K54229), S

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC++, Scheme, shell script
Supported languagesScheme
Build prerequisitesGNU make
Related programsLazyread, Reed

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-07-16
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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