festival-freebsoft-utils
Festival extensions and utilities, focused on interaction with Speech Dispatcher
| Maintainer: | Milan Zamazal <pdm@freebsoft.org> |
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| On-line documentation: | /doc/festival-freebsoft-utils |
| Git Repository: | http://git.freebsoft.org/?p=festival-freebsoft-utils.git |
| Latest version: | 0.10 (download festival-freebsoft-utils-0.10.tar.gz) |
| Project archive: | /pub/projects/festival-freebsoft-utils |
| User portal: | http://live.freebsoft.org/desktop#speech-synthesis |
Description
festival-freebsoft-utils is a collection of Festival utilities that enhance Festival with some useful features. They provide all what is needed for interaction with Speech Dispatcher.
Key festival-freebsoft-utils features are:
- Generalized concept of input events. festival-freebsoft-utils allows not only plain text synthesis, but also combining it with sounds. Additionally, mechanism of logical events mapped to other events is provided.
- Substitution of events for given words.
- High-level voice selection mechanism and setting of basic prosodic parameters.
- Spelling mode.
- Capital letter signalization.
- Punctuation modes, for explicit reading or not reading punctuation characters.
- Incremental synthesis of texts and events.
- Speech Dispatcher support.
- Rudimentary SSML support.
- Enhancing the Festival extension language with some functions commonly used in Lisp. Support for wrapping already defined Festival functions by your own code.
- Everything is written in the extension language, no patching of the Festival C++ sources is needed.
Source code
The source code is managed using Git. You can use the Git web interface or clone the repository from:
git://git.freebsoft.org/git/festival-freebsoft-utils
Documentation
Documentation is available as a part of the project and is distributed together with the source code. You can browse the HTML version on-line.
Mailing lists
If you want to discuss festival-freebsoft-utils issues publicly, you can use the Speech Dispatcher mailing lists.