A collection of utilities that enhance Festival with some useful features. They
provide all that is needed for interaction with Speech Dispatcher.

Key festival-freebsoft-utils features are:

a.. Generalized concept of input events. festival-freebsoft-utils allows not only
 plain text synthesis, but also combining it with sounds. Additionally,
 mechanism of logical events mapped to other events is provided.
a.. Substitution of events for given words.
a.. High-level voice selection mechanism and setting of basic prosodic parameters.
a.. Spelling mode.
a.. Capital letter signalization.
a.. Punctuation modes, for explicit reading or not reading punctuation characters.
a.. Incremental synthesis of texts and events.
a.. Speech Dispatcher support.
a.. Rudimentary SSML support.
a.. Enhance the Festival extension language with functions commonly used in Lisp.
a.. Support for wrapping already defined Festival functions by your own code.
a.. Everything is written in the extension language, no patching of the Festival
 C++ sources is needed.

• Igor Vlasenko

• festival-freebsoft-utils
• festival-freebsoft-utils-doc