>Number:         7125
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       festival pkgsrc'd
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 10 16:20:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Julian Assange
>Organization:
	
>Release:        <NetBSD-current source date> 1.3I
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD suburbia.net 1.3I NetBSD 1.3I (SUBURBIA.PROF) #33: Fri Feb 26 15:56:30 EST 1999 proff@yoshi.iq.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SUBURBIA.PROF i386


>Description:

This was a bitch of a port. I ended up with 27 (!) new interlinked
audio packages, including support for 16 different voices,
3 languages and 5 dialects. zenicb now sounds like the
menagerie it is.

   Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system
   developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with
   various APIs, as well an environment for development and research
   of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a
   Scheme-based command interpreter for general control.

Current version

   Version 1.3.1 (January 1999) is now available for research,
   educational and individual use for free. It has the following
   features
     * English (British and American), Spanish (mexican) and
       Welsh text to speech
     * Externally configurable language independent modules
          + phonesets, lexicons, letter-to-sound rules, tokenizing,
            part of speech tagging, intonation and duration.
     * Waveform synthesizers:
          + diphone based: residual excited LPC (and PSOLA not for distribution)
          + MBROLA database support.
     * Portable (Unix) distribution.
     * On-line documentation.
     * SABLE markup, Emacs, client/server (including Java), scripting interfaces.

	
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