Festival Speech Synthesis System - Definition and Overview

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 license similar to the MIT License.

Festvox

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

Flite

It is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University

Flite is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the Festvox project from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gstreamer

There is a Festival plug-in for GStreamer.

See also

• CMU Sphinx

External links

• The Festival Speech Synthesis System (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival)
• Festvox (http://www.festvox.org)
• Flite: a small, fast run time synthesis engine (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/index.html)
• TkFestival, a Festival frontend (http://tkfestival.sourceforge.net/)
• Speech Synthesis & Analysis Software (http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/one-page.html#speech)