Post by Rick Melick on Jun 23, 2013 20:37:22 GMT
The Festival speech synthesis system is an open-source speech synthesizer which started in the academic circles. In addition to regular speech synthesis the package offers various kinds of programming interfaces, low-level components and other things such as the ability to sample your own voices if you've got the time and expertise. In addition to serving as an open platform for speech research, Festival has been adopted by many open source projects including most screen readers running in Linux.