29 October 2007 Gilbert Ashley This tarball includes the sources for the festival speech synthesizer and the Edinburgh speech_tools. It also includes the minimum of voices, speech lexicons and lexers needed to build the testsuite. The archives included here are these: festival-1.95-beta.tar.gz festlex_CMU.tar.gz festlex_OALD.tar.gz festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz festvox-2.1-release.tar.gz festvox_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts.tar.gz festvox_cmu_us_bdl_arctic_hts.tar.gz festvox_cmu_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz festvox_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts.tar.gz festvox_don.tar.gz festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz festvox_kedlpc16k.tar.gz festvox_rablpc16k.tar.gz speech_tools-1.2.95-beta.tar.gz If you want to include other voices or the festvox tools which allow you to develop new voices, they can be downloaded separately from the festvox.org site here: http://festvox.org/festival/downloads.html Sources for other voices or festvox should be unpacked inside this directory for easiest compiling. The speech_tools should be configured and built first, then festival (and then festvox if you are using that.) Since using these tools requires many of the files from the sources, the Makefiles do not include an install rule. You should unpack the full festival-suite archive in the directory where it will be used -either in your $HOME directory or in share system directory like /usr/lib if you want all users to be able to use the tools. Please see the README files in the festival and speech_tools directories for more specific information on how to use festival.