Package: festival (1:2.1~release-5.1)

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General multi-lingual speech synthesis system

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.

Tags: Accessibility Support: Speech Synthesis, Software Development: Interpreter, Implemented in: implemented-in::scheme, interface::text-mode, Networking: Client, Server, Role: role::program, sound::speech, Interface Toolkit: Ncurses TUI, Works with: Audio

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