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The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systematic and better documented, making it possible for anyone to build a new voice. It is distributed under a
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for building synthetic voices for Festival. It includes a step-by-step tutorial with examples in document called "Building Synthetic Voices".
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A recording of an earlier version of this article made with the text2audio script, which uses Festival Speech Synthesis System.
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Festival is designed to support multiple languages, and comes with support for
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Flite is a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at
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Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) of the
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Speech synthesizer
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MIT License
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Alan W. Black
University of Edinburgh
Carnegie Mellon University
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