Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System

Festival Speech Synthesis System

Festival Speech Synthesis System

Free software

The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley[1] at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Substantial contributions have also been provided by Carnegie Mellon University and other sites. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the BSD License.

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It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well as an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-like command interpreter for general customization and extension.[2]

Festival is designed to support multiple languages, and comes with support for English (British and American pronunciation), Welsh, and Spanish. Voice packages exist for several other languages, such as Castilian Spanish, Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Marathi, Polish, Russian and Telugu.

Festvox

The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systematic and better documented,[3] making it possible for anyone to build a new voice. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the MIT License.

Festvox is a suite of tools by Alan W. Black and Kevin Lenzo for building synthetic voices for Festival. It includes a step-by-step tutorial with examples in document called "Building Synthetic Voices".[4]

Flite

Flite is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University, derived from both Festival and Festvox.[5]

Linux compatibility

There is a Festival plug-in for GStreamer. Festival is pre-packaged for several Linux distributions.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Taylor, Paul. "The Architecture of the Festival Speech Synthesis System" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University.
  2. [2]
    "Festival". www.cstr.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  3. [3]
    "Festvox: Home". www.festvox.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  4. [4]
    "Building Synthetic Voices". www.festvox.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  5. [5]
    "CMU Flite: Speech Synthesizer". www.festvox.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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