Festival Speech Synthesis System

The software was written in C and is the scripting language Scheme extensible and controllable. The authors understand the festival as a framework for speech synthesis software, can be integrated into existing software that expands with your own scripts or Scheme. The license allows free use and modification of the software and complies with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Integration into proprietary software is permitted.

Free software that uses Festival for speech synthesis, are for example:

  • Screader, a screen reader
  • GpsDrive, a navigation software
  • Kismet, a WLAN sniffer
  • Pidgin- festival, an extension for the instant messaging client Pidgin

Furthermore festival serves as a basis for the research of speech synthesis systems. Other synthetic voices are available for many languages.

The earliest copyright date specified, as listed in the COPYING file of the source package, dates from the year 1996. The current version, 2.1 beta, was released in November 2010.

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