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Encyclopedia > Festival Speech Synthesis System

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...


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. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ... API may refer to: In computing, application programming interface In petroleum industry, American Petroleum Institute In education, Academic Performance Index This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose computer programming language. ... Scheme is a functional programming language and a dialect of Lisp. ... A command line interpreter is a computer program which reads lines of text that the user types and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language. ...


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. The MIT License, originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a license for the use of certain types of computer software. ...

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Festvox

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


Flite

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. Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. ...


Gstreamer

There is a Festival plug-in for GStreamer. GStreamer is an open source (LGPL) multimedia framework based on GObject. ...


Compiling Festival for Linux

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


See also

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

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