Py-festival

A Python wrapper around the Festival Speech Synthesis System.

Installation

First install the Python, Festival and their headers
On Debian:

sudo apt-get install python python-dev festival festival-dev

Then install using either pip or directly from github:

pip install pyfestival

or

pip install git+https://github.com/techiaith/pyfestival#festival

Environment Variables

If your festival/speechtools headers and libs aren't in the standard place, you may need to set the following variables before installing with pip:

• FESTIVAL_INCLUDE - festival header directory. Default is /usr/include/festival
• SPEECH_INCLUDE - speech tools header directory. Default is /usr/include/speech_tools
• FESTIVAL_LIB - lib directory for festival/speech tools /usr/lib