Festival 2.1

Festival is a powerful reliable framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules.

Festival provides 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.

Here are some key features of "Festival":

Waveform synthesizers:
· Portable (Unix) distribution
· Documentation
· SABLE markup, Emacs, client/server, scripting interfaces.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· HTS hidden Markov model based synthesis engine API integration
· Support for gcc 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5
· Native Apple OS X audio support (OS X 10.6)
· Bug fixes galore.