NewsForge: A Festival of Speech Synthesis for Linux

“As information technology becomes more pervasive, the issues of
communication between information-processing machines and people
becomes increasingly important. Up to now such communication has
been almost entirely by means of video screens. Speech, which is by
far the most widely used and natural means of communication between
people, is an obvious possible substitute. However, this
deceptively simple means of exchanging information is, in fact,
extremely complicated. Festival Speech Synthesis System aims to
make things a little easier on interface developers…”

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