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The Festival Speech Synthesis System
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version 2.4 December 2014
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This directory contains the Festival Speech Synthesis System,
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developed at CSTR, University of Edinburgh. The project was originally
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started by Alan W Black and Paul Taylor but many others have been
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involved (see ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file for full list).
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Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis
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systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole
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it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level,
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though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, and an Emacs
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interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (US and UK)
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and Spanish are distributed but a host of other voices have been
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developed by others) though English is the most advanced.
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The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools
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for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based command
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interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo
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format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and HTML.
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COPYING
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Festival is free. Earlier versions were restricted to non-commercial
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use but we have now relaxed those conditions. The licence is an X11
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style licence thus it can be incorporated in commercial products
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and free source products without restriction. See COPYING for the
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actual details.
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INSTALL
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Festival should run on any standard Unix platform. It has already run
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on Solaris, SunOS, Linux and FreeBSD. It requires a C++ compiler (GCC
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2.7.2, 2.8.1, 2.95.[123], 3.2.3 3.3.2 RedHat "gcc-2.96", gcc 3.3, gcc
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4.4.x and gcc-4.5.x are our standard compilers) to install. A port to
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Windows XP/NT/95/98 and 2000 using either Cygnus GNUWIN32, this is
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still new but many people are successfully using it.
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A detailed description of installation and requirements for the whole
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system is given in the file INSTALL read that for details.
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NEWS
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Keep abreast of Festival News by regularly checking the Festival homepage
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http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
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or the US site
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http://festvox.org/festival/
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New in Festival 2.2
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updates to hts (hts_engine 1.07) and clustergen
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New in Festival 2.1
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Support for various new GCC compilers
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Improved support for hts, clustergen, clunits and multisyn voices
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lots of wee bugs fixed
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