Festival
Festival offers a full text to speech system with various
APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech
synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter.
Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as
a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing
clearly understandable speech from text.
The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech
Tools Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based
command interpreter for control. There are a number of graphical user
interfaces that rely on Festival.
Features include:
- Externally configurable language independent modules:
- phonesets
- lexicons
- letter-to-sound rules
- tokenizing
- part of speech tagging
- intonation and duration
- Waveform synthesizers:
- Multisyn unit selection engine
- HTS parametric synthesis engine
- Clustergen parametric synthesis engine
- Clunits unit selection engine
- diphone based: residual excited LPC (and PSOLA not for
distribution)
- MBROLA database support
- SABLE markup, Emacs, client/server, scripting interfaces
- HTS hidden Markov model based synthesis engine API
integration
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