FreeTTS

Description
FreeTTS is a speech synthesis system written entirely in the JavaTM programming language. It is based upon Flite: a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Flite is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University.

Homepage
http://freetts.sourceforge.net/

Features
This release of FreeTTS includes:

• Core speech synthesis engine
• Support for a number of voices:
  • an 8khz diphone, male, US English voice
  • a 16khz diphone, male US English voice
  • a 16khz limited domain, male US English voice

Festival Speech Synthesis System

Description

Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced. Other groups release new languages for the system. And full tools and documentation for build new voices are available through Carnegie Mellon’s FestVox project (http://festvox.org)