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Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules.

Festival and the speech tools are distributed under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike.

The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and HTML.