Festival

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Festival is a general-purpose speech synthesis system developed at the University of Edinburgh. Written in C++, it lets you control voices and speaking style with Scheme-based scripts, and it can read text files aloud directly from the command line. It is a traditional TTS engine that installs easily from Linux distribution packages, and is compared with espeak and pico.

See also

• Speech synthesis (TTS)
• say
• festival
• spd-say
• espeak
• ttspico
• google-speech
• gTTS
• SoX