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<h1>Flite: a small, fast speech synthesis engine</h1>
<h3 align="right">System documentation</h3>
<h3 align="right">Edition 1.4, for Flite version 1.4</h3>
<h3 align="right">4th January 2009</h3>
<strong>by Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo</strong><br>
<p>Copyright © 2001-2009 Carnegie Mellon University, all rights
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<h1 class="chapter">1 Abstract</h1>
<p>This document provides a user manual for flite, a small, fast
run-time speech synthesis engine.
</p>
<p>This manual is nowhere near complete.
</p>
<p>Flite offers text to speech synthesis in a small and efficient binary.
It is designed for embedded systems like PDAs as well large server
installation which must serve synthesis to many ports. Flite is part
of the suite of free speech synthesis tools which include Edinburgh
University’s Festival Speech Synthesis System
<a href="http://www.festvox.org/festival">http://www.festvox.org/festival</a> and Carnegie
Mellon University’s FestVox project <a href="http://festvox.org">http://festvox.org</a>, which
provides tools, scripts, and documentation for building new synthetic
voices.
</p>
<p>Flite is written in ANSI C, and is designed to be portable
to almost any platform, including very small hardware.
</p>
<p>Flite is really just a synthesis library that can be linked into other
programs, it includes two simple voices with the distribution, an old
diphone voice and anb example limited domain voice which uses the newer
unit selection techniques we have been developing. Neither of these
voices would be considered production voices but server as examples, new
voices will be released as they are developed.
</p>
<p>The latest versions, comments, new voices etc for Flite are available
from its home page which may be found at
</p><div class="example">
<pre class="example"><a href="http://cmuflite.org">http://cmuflite.org</a>
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