festival-freebsoft-utils

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.