Festival and Edinburgh Speech Tools

This is an unofficial repository for the Festival Speech Synthesis System, the Edinburgh Speech Tools and Festvox. Official releases can be found at http://festvox.org/

The upstream branch follows the official releases while the master branch may include bug fixes and/or additional features. Even though Travis-CI, coveralls and coverity are set up for continuous integration, there is a chance that new bugs may also be introduced.

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Changes with respect to upstream:

• Improvements to the build system
  • Update autoconf and configure.ac
  • Allow passing options to ./configure: ./configure SHARED=2
  • Respect user custom CFLAGS
  • Easy usage of code coverage tools
  • Enable continuous integration using Travis-CI
  • Add make distclean to fully clean the source tree
  • Use g++ instead of gcc to compile C++ code
• Fix compiler warnings
  • Check return values of functions (fread, fwrite...)
  • Unused variables in functions
  • ... [Ongoing]
• Audio
  • Allow to compile both the ALSA and PulseAudio modules simultaneously
  • Drop obsolete ESD audio module
• Documentation
  • Improve speech tools documentation
  • man page for text2wave
  • Update EST_strcasecmp.c license to BSD-3 as allowed by the copyright owner
• Features
  • Provide compatibility with Festival-1.96 HTS voices
  • Avoid editing festival/lib/languages.scm to add new language
  • voice.find function to search for voices
  • Start support for >2GB files [Ongoing]
  • Do not import the whole std namespace in headers
  • Alaw support for asterisk compatibility
  • Faster text2wave
  • Rewrite some signal processing functions badly ported from Fortran