Festival

Overview

Festival is a general multilingual speech synthesis system developed at the University of Edinburgh’s CSTR. It offers a full framework for research and a scripting interface for building custom voices. Long-standing and well documented, it remains a fixture in academic speech work.

What makes Festival special?

• Focus: General-purpose speech synthesis.
• Availability: Free & Open-Source.
• Use cases: Research, teaching, and Unix speech pipelines.

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