Festival Speech Synthesis System

Substantial contributions have also been provided by Carnegie Mellon University and other sites.

Voice packages exist for several other languages, such as Castilian Spanish, Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Marathi, Polish, Russian and Telugu.

Festvox is a suite of tools by Alan W. Black and Kevin Lenzo for building synthetic voices for Festival.

It includes a step-by-step tutorial with examples in document called "Building Synthetic Voices".

[4] Flite is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University, derived from both Festival and Festvox.