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Description

The German Festival version was developed at the Institute of Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart by Gregor Möhler, Antje Schweitzer, Mark Breitenbücher and others.
The IMS German Festival is a full German Text-to-Speech engine based on the original Festival distribution by CSTR, University of Edinburgh. Together with two non-IMS resources included in the distribution (the externer Link BOMP lexicon from the externer Link University of Bonn and diphones from the externer Link MBROLA project) it enables Festival to speak German.
The IMS German Festival contains all modules necessary for Text-to-Speech conversion. More explicitly this involves linguistic text analysis (modules tokenization, token-pos, token-to-word), grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (lexicon-lookup, letter-to-sound rules), prosody (phrasing, intonation, duration, intonation targets) and waveform synthesis (carried out by the MBROLA engine through an appropriate interface).
For more background information about the IMS German Festival see the README file and the COPYING file of the distribution or consult the manual included in the distribution.
The packages are distributed for research and educational (i.e. non-commercial and non-military) purposes. The license terms can be found in the file COPYING.ims_german_festival for the IMS German Festival package and in file COPYING.bomp for the BOMP lexicon.
Requirements
Here are the FAQ.
Here is a link to externer Link Carnival, a GUI for Festival, which was developed at the IMS.

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Please direct inquiries to german-festival AT ims.uni-stuttgart.de.

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