Festival Speech Synthesis System
The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley 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.
| Developer(s) | Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) of the University of Edinburgh |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.5
/ December 2017 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Speech synthesizer |
| License | Similar to MIT License (Free software) |
| Website | www |
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.
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.