| Description: | 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:
• 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.
• Substitution of events for given words.
• High-level voice selection mechanism and setting of basic prosodic parameters.
• Spelling mode.
• Capital letter signalization.
• Punctuation modes, for explicit reading or not reading punctuation characters.
• Incremental synthesis of texts and events.
• Speech Dispatcher support.
• Rudimentary SSML support.
• Enhance the Festival extension language with functions commonly used in Lisp.
• Support for wrapping already defined Festival functions by your own code.
• Everything is written in the extension language, no patching of the Festival
C++ sources is needed. |
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