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The Festival Speech Synthesis System

Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems.

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High-Quality Text-To-Speech engine for personal use

I'm looking for a high-quality TTS engine that I can afford (let's say less than 1000$). So far, I've tried flite and festival with default voices. However, while the results are certainly understandable, technical texts are hard to…
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Text2wave festival not working via nginx php exec

I'm trying to run a shell command text2wave in PHP on a nginx server. The problem is the command just exits silently without working as it should. It's also not displaying any errors. Here's the code:
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how to kill a process group using Python subprocess

I am trying to do the equivalent of the following using Python subprocess: >cat /var/log/dmesg | festival --tts & [1] 30875 >kill -9 -30875 Note that I am killing the process group (as indicated by the negative sign prepending the process ID…
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Text-to-Speech in Emacs

I'm not blind, I just want to have a way to have my Windows machine read the contents of a buffer outloud. Here are the basic requirements: Read any English text buffer. Pause the reading at any time and resume at any time (not wait a few minutes…
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festival 2.4: why do some voices not work with singing mode?

voice_kal_diphone and voice_ral_diphone work correctly in singing mode (there's vocal output and the pitches are correct for the specified notes). voice_cmu_us_ahw_cg and the other CMU voices do not work correctly--there's vocal output but the pitch…
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Where to download Festival TTS voice

Where can I download the voices available in Festival demo page?
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Declaration of void abort() throws different exceptions

I am trying to write some C++ code (using the C++ API) for Festival and am getting stuck while trying to compile. Here is how I invoke g++: g++ -Wall -pedantic -I../ -I../speech_tools/include/ helloFestival.C -o h -L../festival/src/lib/libFestival.a…
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Finding custom includes directories with autoconf

I'm trying to compile a program which uses the festival library. Basically, the requirements are that you include the festival and estools header directories in the include path, and you include both their library paths. In a normal installation,…
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Festival audio device problems. No sound output

I currently have festival 2.4 installed and configured. Heres what I'm doing: I first use ./bin/festival to get into the festival prompt. Then do (SayText "test") which should have the tts speak the word test Now when I have festival 2.1 installed…
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Can festival tts's speed of speech be changed?

I want festival tts to read a bit slower, can anyone help me with that? I use python 2.7 and I run the code in gnome-terminal.
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How can I kill a Festival speech command?

Let's say I run the following command: cat /var/log/dmesg | festival --tts This might return the message [1] 4726, indicating a process ID associated with this operation. When I run kill 4726 or killall festival or killall cat or killall aplay, the…
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How to set parameters for Festival TTS in C++

I am trying to develop a TTS program in linux, using festival. However, I can not find any api for parameters setting, such as rate and voice volume. Anyone have some idea? Thanks,
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Generate audio files using Festival

Is it possible to generate audio files in Festival by piping the output to some other program? I'm trying to find out how to convert an xml file to a audio file, using Festival's "singing synthesis" option.
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How to tune the quality of festival TTS?

I am using 2.1 release of festival. I was able to install and use 172M voice with (voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits) The quality has been significantly improved but far from desired. I believe generation still uses a lot of defaults. Is it possible…
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How to build a new voice (language) for festival using HTS

I want to build my own TTS (Text to Speech) App using HTS (HMM-based speech synthesis system) for the Arabic language. I fail to find any step by step instructions on how to build the synthesizer using HTS. What I have done is to download the sample…
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