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.
