Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...
This is a short introduction to the Festival Speech Synthesis System. Festival was developed by Alan Black and Paul Taylor, at the Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh.
As the demand for audio content surges across various platforms, from podcasts to e-learning materials, the need for high-quality, natural-sounding speech synthesis has never been greater.