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Quoted from http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced. Other groups release new languages for the system. And full tools and documentation for build new voices are available through Carnegie Mellon's FestVox project (http://festvox.org)

The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and HTML.

Festival is free software. Festival and the speech tools are distributed under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike.

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Unable To Change The Voice In Orca To Use Festival In Ubuntu 18.04

I am assisting a blind friend with the transition from Windows to Linux. We have installed Ubuntu-MATE 18.04. Unfortunately, he hates the default voice used by Orca, and we have thus far been completely unable to change it. Our aim is to set it to…
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How to install and use latest Nitech HTS voices for festival on Ubuntu 20.04

I see that there are now Nitech HTS voices 2.3.2 available for download. On Ubuntu 20.04 festival 2.5.0 gets installed. How can I install and use latest Nitech HTS voices for festival on Ubuntu 20.04?
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Festival error when trying to use SayText

When I enter Festival via the command: festival -q and attempt to utilize SayText, I get the following error: festival> (SayText "hello") SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : SayText Why does this happen? I thought Festival came equipped with SayText.…
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18.04.1 desktop: How to install the 'Fiona' voice that is present in the Festival TTS demo page

I want to dl/install the Fiona voice that is present on the Festival TTS demo page. I have searched around and found instructions on downloading and installing many other voices that are present in the demo page, but none has anything about this…
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SIOD ERROR: not a number

Some times when i use (SayText " ") it gives the following error: "SIOD ERROR: not a number". For example: festival> (SayText "ਮੇਰਾ ਨਾਮ") means (SayText"mera naam") SIOD ERROR: not a number festival> (SayText " ਨਾਮ ") SIOD ERROR: not a…
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Festival- how to make speech synthesis read numbers like "1325.25" as "one three two five point two five"?

I am using Ubuntu 15.10. In Libreoffice calc, I am using an extension "read text" to read numbers using Festival speech synthesis. How to set up Festival speech synthesis to read numbers like "1325.25" as "one three two five point two five"…
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Manually install voices in festival

I am using festival as the natural reader in ubuntu, and I have been trying to download voices from CMU website and place them into /usr/share/festival/voices/ However, none of the manually installation works. Up till now no other voices are working…
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Festival text-to-speech ignores `current-voice` defined in `.festivalrc` in 20.04

On Ubuntu 18.04 I had in my ~/.festivalrc (voice.select 'en1_embrola) which works as expected. However after upgrading to 20.04 my default voice is kal_diphone On festival's interactive shell (voice.select 'en1_embrola) does the correct thing so I…
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How to make festival speak on graphical login in xfce4?

I've got Ubuntu Studio 16.04 with xfce4. My goal is to run festival, the speech generator, whenever I log in into the graphical desktop environment. Making festival say something in the terminal works perfectly, for instance: echo "got milk" |…
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Speech Dispatcher not working after changing voice to Festival

I followed these instructions for how to change the default voice for spd-say from espeak to festival hoping that would allow me to use festival in Chrome with a text-to-speech extension I have installed. At first, the spd-say command would work…
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festival ubuntu not working text to speech

Can anyone help this out, my cli log shows following like this, ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib…
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howto change voice in festival

in my /usr/share/festival/voices/english....I have kal_diphone folder which is English male voice but now I want to change English male voice to female voice so ..I downloaded " cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.gz ...then followed following step…
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