
29 October 2007	Gilbert Ashley <amigo@ibiblio.org>

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.
