Festival Speech Synthesis System

See: Command Interpreter, University of Edinburgh, C++, Cross-Platform, Speech Synthesizer, MIT License, Free Software, Speech Synthesis, Alan W. Black, Centre For Speech Technology Research, Carnegie Mellon University, Free Software License.

References

(Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System Retrieved:2017-4-6.
- The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black at 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. ^[1]
  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.

↑ "As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface."[1]