festival-freebsoft-utils

Festival extensions and utilities, focused on interaction with Speech

Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <pdm@freebsoft.org>

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Description

festival-freebsoft-utils is a collection of Festival utilities that enhance Festival with some useful features. They provide all what is needed for interaction with Speech Dispatcher.

Key festival-freebsoft-utils features are:

Generalized concept of input events. festival-freebsoft-utils allows not only plain text synthesis, but also combining it with sounds. Additionally, mechanism of logical events mapped to other events is provided.

Substitution of events for given words.

High-level voice selection mechanism and setting of basic prosodic parameters.

Spelling mode.

Capital letter signalization.

Punctuation modes, for explicit reading or not reading punctuation characters.

Incremental synthesis of texts and events.

Speech Dispatcher support.

Rudimentary SSML support.

Enhancing the Festival extension language with some functions commonly used in Lisp. Support for wrapping already defined Festival functions by your own code.

Everything is written in the extension language, no patching of the Festival C++ sources is needed.

Source code

Latest released version is 0.10.

Download the source package: festival-freebsoft-utils-0.10.tar.gz
Project archive: /pub/projects/festival-freebsoft-utils

The source code is managed using CVS. There are the following options to get the current development version.

Download the latest CVS snapshot.
Use CVS web interface.
Use anonymous CVS access (see below)
Become a member of our team and get full read/write access to the repository. Please, contact project maintainer for more information.

Anonymous CVS access (login with an empty password):

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freebsoft.org:/var/lib/cvs login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freebsoft.org:/var/lib/cvs checkout festival-freebsoft-utils

Subscribe to the mailing-list festival-freebsoft-utils-cvs@lists.freebsoft.org for notifications about all CVS commits.

Documentation

Full documentation is available as a part of the project and is distributed together with the source code.

You can browse the HTML version on-line.

Mailing lists

If you want to discuss festival-freebsoft-utils issues publicly, you can use the Speech Dispatcher mailing lists.