05-17-2023-0112 - The 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^[1] 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.

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.^[2]

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,^[3] 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".^[4]

Flite

Flite is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University, derived from both Festival and Festvox.^[5]

Linux compatibility

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

See also

• Orca (assistive technology)

References

1. 
   

Taylor, Paul. "The Architecture of the Festival Speech Synthesis System" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University.

"Festival". www.cstr.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-25.

"Festvox: Home". www.festvox.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.

"Building Synthetic Voices". www.festvox.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.

5. "CMU Flite: Speech Synthesizer". www.festvox.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.

External links

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• The Festival Speech Synthesis System
• Flite at CMU Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Festvox
• Flinger singing synthesis Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Lyricos singing synthesis Archived 2017-04-26 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Speech synthesis
Free software	Speaking eSpeak/eSpeakNG Gnopernicus Gnuspeech Orca Festival Speech Synthesis System/Flite FreeTTS Automatik Text Reader Singing eCantorix Lyricos / Flinger Sinsy
Proprietary software	Speaking Amazon Polly DECtalk Software Automatic Mouth Talk It! Microsoft Agent Microsoft Speech API Microsoft text-to-speech voices Readspeaker Voice browser CoolSpeech IVONA CereProc CeVIO Creative Studio Voiceroid LaLaVoice 15.ai Singing Alter/Ego Cantor CeVIO Creative Studio Chipspeech NIAONiao Virtual Singer PPG Phonem Realivox Symphonic Choirs UTAU Vocalina Vocaloid Xiaoice
Machine	Echo II Mockingboard Pattern playback Phasor RIAS Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips General Instrument SP0256 TuVox
Applications	AOLbyPhone DialogOS Dr. Sbaitso MBROLA Windows 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 Voice cloning

Categories:

• Free speech synthesis software
• Free multimedia software
• Free software programmed in C++
• Singing software synthesizers

 

 

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