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<H1><A NAME="SEC1" HREF="festival_toc.html#TOC1">1  Abstract</A></H1>

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This document provides a user manual for the Festival
Speech Synthesis System, version 1.4.2.  

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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, and an Emacs
interface.  Festival is multi-lingual, we have develeoped voices in many
languages including English (UK and US), Spanish and Welsh, though
English is the most advanced.

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The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools
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.

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The latest details and a full software distribution of the Festival Speech
Synthesis System are available through its home page which may be found
at

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<A HREF="http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html">http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html</A>
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