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HOW DO I GET THE FESTIVAL EXTENSION (TEXT-TO-SPEECH) WORKING ON WINDOWS?

April 26, 2017extension festival text-to-speech Windows working

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HOW DO I GET THE FESTIVAL EXTENSION (TEXT-TO-SPEECH) WORKING ON WINDOWS?

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The Festival text-to-speech extension is NOT SUPPORTED on Windows versions of Pythool . This does not mean you cannot use or attempt to use Festival with Pythool . What it does mean is that this feature is only supported on Linux/Unix, and there are no future plans to add text-to-speech support to Windows versions of Pythool . However, Windows users may freely download and modify the source code for Pythool (doing so in accordance with the Free Education Initiative License), and download the source code for Festival (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/download/festival/), and try to implement this support yourself . (Be sure to read both the license agreement for Festival, and the license agreement for the Festival voice files, as both are different from one another, and different from the Free Education Initiative License under which Pythool is distributed) . Suggestion: UPGRADE to Linux and leave MicroSlave Windows alone .