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Festival

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Tags: speech
Description
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.
Home Page: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Interface: Command Line
Associated Programs
festival-doc Documentation for Festival
festival-freebsoft-utils Festival extensions and utilities
festival-gaim gaim plugin to hear incoming messages using voice synthesis
festvox-kallpc16k American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
pidgin-festival pidgin plugin to hear incoming messages using voice synthesis
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
etch 1.4.3-17.2 1.4.3-17.2
lenny 1.96~beta-7
sid 1.96~beta-8 1.96~beta-8

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
dapper 1.4.3-17.1ubuntu1 1.4.3-17.1ubuntu1
hardy 1.96~beta-7ubuntu1 1.96~beta-7ubuntu1
intrepid 1.96~beta-7ubuntu1 1.96~beta-7ubuntu1
jaunty 1.96~beta-7ubuntu1 1.96~beta-7ubuntu1

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Available rpm Repositories
OpenSUSE 32-bit 64-bit
10.1 1.95-23 1.95-23
10.2 1.96-18 1.96-18
10.3 1.96-67 1.96-67
11.0 1.96-95.1 1.96-95.1

PCLinuxOS 32-bit
2007 1.95-2pclos2007

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