<HTML> <HEAD> <!-- This HTML file has been created by texi2html 1.52 from ../festival.texi on 2 August 2001 --> <TITLE>Festival Speech Synthesis System - 1 Abstract</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#ffffff"> Go to the first, previous, <A HREF="festival_2.html">next</A>, <A HREF="festival_35.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="festival_toc.html">table of contents</A>. <P><HR><P> <H1><A NAME="SEC1" HREF="festival_toc.html#TOC1">1 Abstract</A></H1> <P> This document provides a user manual for the Festival Speech Synthesis System, version 1.4.2. </P> <P> Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual, we have develeoped voices in many languages including English (UK and US), Spanish and Welsh, though English is the most advanced. </P> <P> The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo format which can generate a printed manual, info files and HTML. </P> <P> The latest details and a full software distribution of the Festival Speech Synthesis System are available through its home page which may be found at <PRE> <A HREF="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html">http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html</A> </PRE> <P><HR><P> Go to the first, previous, <A HREF="festival_2.html">next</A>, <A HREF="festival_35.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="festival_toc.html">table of contents</A>. </BODY> </HTML>