Festival Speech Synthesis System: - Speech Resource Pages

for non-commercial use (we are working on a free replacement). In some cases only a pointer to an ftp'able
file plus a program to convert that file to the Festival format is included.
festvox_NAME.tar.gz
You'll need a speech database. A number are available (with varying distribution policies). Each voice may
have other dependencies such as requiring particular lexicons
festdoc_1.4.3.tar.gz
Full postscript, info and html documentation for Festival and the Speech Tools. The source of the
documentation is available in the standard distributions but for your conveniences it has been pre-generated.
In addition to Festival specific sources you will also need
A UNIX machine
Currently we have compiled and tested the system under Solaris (2.5(.1), 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8), SunOS (4.1.3),
FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x Linux (Redhat 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.[012], 7.[01], 8.0 and other Linux distributions), and it
should work under OSF (Dec Alphas) SGI (Irix), HPs (HPUX). But any standard UNIX machine should be
acceptable. We have now successfully ported this version to Windows NT nad Windows 95 (using the Cygnus
GNU win32 environment). This is still a young port but seems to work.
A C++ compiler
Note that C++ is not very portable even between different versions of the compiler from the same vendor.
Although we've tried very hard to make the system portable, we know it is very unlikely to compile without
change except with compilers that have already been tested. The currently tested systems are
❍ Sun Sparc Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7, 2.9: GCC 2.95.1, GCC 3.2
❍ FreeBSD for Intel 3.x and 4.x GCC 2.95.1, GCC 3.0
❍ Linux for Intel (RedHat 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.2/6.0/7.x/8.0): GCC 2.7.2, GCC 2.7.2/egcs-1.0.2, egcs 1.1.1, egcs-
1.1.2, GCC 2.95.[123], GCC "2.96", GCC 3.0, GCC 3.0.1 GCC 3.2 GCC 3.2.1
❍ Windows NT 4.0: GCC 2.7.2 plus egcs (from Cygnus GNU win32 b19), Visual C++ PRO v5.0, Visual
C++ v6.0
Note if GCC works on one version of Unix it usually works on others.
We have compiled both the speech tools and Festival under Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95 using the GNU
tools available from Cygnus.
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/.
GNU make
Due to there being too many different make programs out there we have tested the system using GNU make
on all systems we use. Others may work but we know GNU make does.
Audio hardware
You can use Festival without audio output hardware but it doesn't sound very good (though admittedly you
can hear less problems with it). A number of audio systems are supported (directly inherited from the audio
support in the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library): NCD's NAS (formerly called netaudio) a network
transparent audio system (which can be found at ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/audio/nas/); `/dev/audio' (at 8k
ulaw and 8/16bit linear), found on Suns, Linux machines and FreeBSD; and a method allowing arbitrary
UNIX commands. See section 23. Audio output.
Earlier versions of Festival mistakenly offered a command line editor interface to the GNU package readline, but due
to conflicts with the GNU Public Licence and Festival's licence this interface was removed in version 1.3.1. Even
Festival's new free licence would cause problems as readline support would restrict Festival linking with non-free
code. A new command line interface based on editline was provided that offers similar functionality. Editline remains
a compilation option as it is probably not yet as portable as we would like it to be.
In addition to the above, in order to process the documentation you will need `TeX', `dvips' (or similar), GNU's
`makeinfo' (part of the texinfo package) and `texi2html' which is available from
http://wwwcn.cern.ch/dci/texi2html/.
However the document files are also available pre-processed into, postscript, DVI, info and html as part of the
distribution in `festdoc-1.4.X.tar.gz'.