Festival Speech Synthesis System

Festival
Developer(s)	Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) of the University of Edinburgh
Stable release	2.4 / December 2014
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Speech synthesizer
License	Similar to MIT License (Free software)
Website	www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black at 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.

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.^[1]

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, 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".

Flite

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

Linux compatibility

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

References

↑ "As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface."

External links

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Speech synthesis

Proprietary software	DECtalk Software Automatic Mouth Talk It! Microsoft Agent Microsoft Speech API Microsoft text-to-speech voices Readspeaker Voice browser CoolSpeech VoiceWeb BrowseAloud LaLaVoice Vocaloid Cantor Symphonic Choirs IVONA CereProc Utau Voiceroid NIAONiao Virtual Singer Vocalina Realivox CeVIO Creative Studio Chipspeech Alter/Ego PPG Phonem

Free software	eSpeak Gnopernicus Gnuspeech Orca Festival Speech Synthesis System FreeTTS Sinsy Automatik Text Reader

Machine	Echo 2 Pattern playback Phasor RIAS Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips TuVox

Applications	AOLbyPhone DialogOS Dr. Sbaitso MBROLA Microsoft Narrator Microsoft Speech Server PlainTalk Voice font

Protocols	Speech Synthesis Markup Language SABLE VoiceXML

Developers/ Researchers	Alan W. Black Catherine Browman Franklin Seaney Cooper Gunnar Fant Haskins Laboratories Wolfgang von Kempelen Ignatius Mattingly Philip Rubin Yamaha

Process	Articulatory synthesis Concatenative synthesis Currah Inverse filter PSOLA Phase vocoder Self-voicing

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