festival: Festival (Speech Synthesis System) festival: festival: Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis festival: systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole festival: it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level festival: though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java festival: and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual. The system is festival: written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library. festival: festival: festival: