The Festival text-to-speech system

Festival is a widely used research toolkit for Text-To-Speech. It is not perfect, and your goal is to discover various types of errors it makes, then understand why they occur.

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    Overview

    An overview of what you will do for this assignment

  • Getting started

    A first look at Festival and how we use it in interactive mode on the command line.

  • Step-by-step

    It's possible to run each step in the text-to-speech pipeline manually, and inspect what Festival does at each point.

  • Finding mistakes

    Festival makes mistakes, of course. Your task is to find interesting ones, and explain why each occurs.

  • Writing up

    Your submission for this assignment will be a written report, analyzing errors made by a specific Festival TTS configuration and discussing the pipeline as a whole.

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