Talk:Festival Speech Synthesis System

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Sample file

It would be nice to have an ogg with a sample here. Could someone perhaps make one?

Mykeyspace 22:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think this should be updated. There are a variety of new voices that are much more humanlike.

RJH English RP Male is stunning IMO.

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/onlinedemo.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.151.36.74 (talk) 16:56, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone please tell me which voice is being used in the sample here? I've been trying to find it for days. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.237.151.106 (talk) 09:30, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Creation of Festival

The Copying guidelines suggest that Festival was first created in 1996.[1] This is especially worth noting, since the "first stable release" seems to be version 2.5 created in 2017, which can be misleading about the actual conception and usage of this software.

Additionally it seems like LMMS was using Festival (which apparently was part of the scope of most common Linux distributions at the time of the reference being written) as a backend for its (possibly removed before 2013 as per the 0.4.15 release date and plugins list) plugin SingerBot as early as 2008 if not earlier (2008 is only when the page was last edited).[2][3] While the page mentioning it used Festival as backend was last edited in 2012, which may suggest that SingerBot was used in LMMS till at least then, I cannot be certain of this without looking at the history of the project before it moved to GitHub and started using git.

It may be worth giving a reasonably accurate impression of the impact of the Festival system before 2017. I do not know where to look for more information regarding software that used Festival as a dependency. I put this information here as a good starting point for anyone who is looking for a position of information to start from. It is important to not be misled by the suggestion of Festival's obscurity before when this page describes its first stable release to be. Happy0246 (talk) 17:04, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]