All About Linux: Festival–A Text to Speech Synthesis Software in Linux

“Coming home after a hard day at work after staring at the
monitor continuously for hours on end, the last thing I want to do
many days is sit in front of the computer again. At times though, I
have this urge to grab a book and do some light reading but often
the strain on my eyes dissuades me in pursuing this thought any
further. This is where this very nice utility called festival comes
into the picture. Festival is a text-to-speech synthesiser
developed by the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the
University of Edinburgh. It is shipped with most Linux
distributions and has been released under an X11-type licence
allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use
alike…”

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