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 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

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

Flite

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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

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There is a Festival plug-in for GStreamer.

Compiling Festival for Linux

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

See also

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• CMU Sphinx
• Flinger - FestivaL sINGER. Midi -> Festival -> synthesized singing..

External links

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• The Festival Speech Synthesis System
• Festvox
• Flite: a small, fast run time synthesis engine
• Carnival - a GUI for Festival
• TkFestival, a Festival frontend
• Speech Synthesis & Analysis Software

Computer accessibility | Assistive technology | Speech synthesis | Free software