Dave Yates, and his co-host Lynn, demonstrate the voice synthesis package, Festival. Dave, discusses how he employs Festival, along with other packages to extend its capabilities. Lynn, clears-up a few of the finer points, for Dave. <br>
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<a href="https://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_speechd#Use_alsa_output_method">Howto use alsa output</a>;<br>
<a href="https://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/?Release%20Archive">HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS) - Release Archive or where to get CMU_US_SLT_ARTIC_HTS voice for festival ver 1.4.3</a>;<br>
<a href="https://www.festvox.org/voicedemos.html">Online voice demos</a>;<br>
<a href="https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/morevoices.html">Yet another online voice demo site</a>;<br>

<a href="https://linuxgazette.net/114/john.html">Linux Gazette article on festival</a>;<br>
<a href="https://www.hackosis.com/index.php/2007/11/24/transform-linux-into-a-talking-companion/">Hackosis festival article</a>;<br>
<a href="https://festvox.org/docs/manual-1.4.3/festival_toc.html">Festival ver 1.4.3 manual</a>;<br>
<a href="https://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/42-Productive-Monday-Festival-Speech-synthesis.html">Article with info on how to change default voice</a>;<br>
<a href="https://perlbox.org/">Perlbox Voice is an voice enabled application to bring your desktop under your command</a>;<br>
<a href="https://leb.net/pub/blinux/doc/blinux/my-tts-linux.txt">Mini linux tts howto; an older document with some still useful information</a>;<br>
<a href="https://www.howtoadvice.com/ListenToIM/">How to Make Your Instant Messenger Talk in Ubuntu Linux</a>;<br>
<a href="https://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/01/festival-text-to-speech-synthesis.html">Another good festival article</a>;<br>
<a href="https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-195579-highlight-festival.html">Gentoo forum:Festival tips: more understandable and books to audiobooks</a>;<br>
<a href="https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/mbrola.html">Festtival MBROLA info</a>; and<br>
<a href="https://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html">MBROLA binary and voices</a>

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