FESTIVAL Full INSTALLATION

Festival installation instructions, for Italian voices

These installation instruction are only useful if You have a Unix-like environment.
This includes Cygwin on MS Windows.

Download festival

Note that You must accept its license
You may found useful information on festival at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
We have successfully used our files with the following version of festival
 

Version 1.4.3 (You need gcc <= 3.2)

festival-1.4.3-release.tar.gz
speech_tools-1.2.3-release.tar.gz
 

Version 1.95-beta (You need gcc <= 3.4)

festival-1.95-beta.tar.gz
speech_tools-1.2.95-beta.tar.gz
 

Version 1.96-beta

Download link not provided.

Download festival modules

OGIresLPC module (Only if You want OGI voices)

Note that You must accept its license
You may found useful information on OGIresLPC at http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/
OGIresLPC-2.2.tar.gz
 

IMS PaintE module (Only if You want 2c_vq voices)

Note that You must accept its license
You may found useful information on PaintE at http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/synthesis/
This is a modified version of the module:
 
  1. We have removed some code which license is not compatible with GPL. Due to this change, You cannot perform analysis with this module, but only synthesis.
  2. We have fixed compilation with any gcc compiler.
  3. We have fixed compatibility with festival 1.4.3, 1.95-beta, 1.96-beta.
  4. We have added some more option to some function, setting the default to the original module behaviour.
ims_painte_0.9a-italian_updated_free.gz

Download lexicon and schemes files

We suggest that You download and install english lexicons

Note that You must accept their license
You may found useful information on these lexicon at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
festlex_CMU.tar.gz
 festlex_OALD.tar.gz
 festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz
 

Italian lexicon and scheme files

Note that You must accept their license
italian_scm.tar.gz
 festlex_IFD.tar.gz
 

Download MBROLA and MBROLA diphones' databases

MBROLA

Note that You must accept its license
You may found useful information on MBROLA at http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/MBROLA.html
Download page

Italian databases

Note that You must accept their license
You may found useful information on MBROLA at http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/MBROLA.html
it3-010304.zip
 it4-010926.zip

Download voices

Basic voices

festvox_lp_diphone.tar.gz
 festvox_pc_diphone.tar.gz
 

MBROLA voices (You need MBROLA)

festvox_lp_MBROLA.tar.gz
 festvox_pc_MBROLA.tar.gz
 

MBROLA 2c_vq voices (You need MBROLA and PaintE module)

festvox_lp_MBROLA_2c_vq.tar.gz
 festvox_pc_MBROLA_2c_vq.tar.gz
 

OGIresLPC voices (You need OGIresLPC module)

festvox_lp_ogi_diphone.tar.gz
 festvox_pc_ogi_diphone.tar.gz

Extract all

Once downloaded every needed file, You can extract them.
To extract a .tar.gz or .tgz files You may use the following command:
tar zxvf filename.tar.gz
There is no standard tool to extract a .zip file, but almost every system has its own utility.
Be careful to extract the files in the same order as listed above in this page.
 

  1. Extract festival and speech_tools

    This will create festival/ and speech_tools/ directories.

  2. Extract modules

    This will overwrite/add some files inside festival/ and speech_tools/ directories.

  3. Extract lexicons and schemes

    This will overwrite/add some files inside festival/ and speech_tools/ directories.

  4. Extract voices and MBROLA files

    If You want MBROLA voices, You need to extract the databases inside festival/lib/voices/italian/italian/ and be sure that MBROLA is in Your PATH.

Edit configuration files

 

  1. Edit speech_tools/include/unix/EST_socket_unix.h

    1. This is necessary only while compiling festival 1.4.3 with a recent version of cygwin.

      Replace the line

        #if defined(__CYGWIN__)

      with

                      #if defined(__CYGWIN__) && __GNUC__ <3
       

       

  2. Edit speech_tools/config/config.in

    Editing this file, You can configure compilation of speech_tools and festival.
     

    1. Choose a compiler:
      Search the following line
      COMPILER=@COMPILERTYPE@
      And replace @COMPILERTYPE@ with appropriate value
      i.e.:
      COMPILER=gcc295

      Maybe that on system with more than one version of gcc, You need to set the right name for the compiler. In the example above, on a Debian system with more than one version of gcc installed, this means edit speech_tools/config/config/compilers/gcc295.mak and replace the line
      GCC295 = gcc
      with the line
      GCC295 = gcc-2.95

      with newer version of festival, You need to change the line
      CXX = g++
      too.
      To compile with gcc 3.4 You can choose gcc32 as compiler and specify the rigth compiler name.
    2. Add PaintE, if needed
      Search the following line
      ALSO_INCLUDE=
      And replace it with
      ALSO_INCLUDE=ims_painte
       

  3. Edit speech_tools/main/Makefile

    This is only needed if You need Painte.
    Search the line containing
    BASESRCS =
    Then, on the first empty line, add
    BASESRCS += painte_analysis_main.cc painte_synthesis_main.cc
     

  4. Edit festival/config/config.in

    Editing this file, You can configure compilation of festival.
     
    1. Set libdir path
      By default festival put its schemes inside the festival/lib/ directory.
      If, after the compilation, You move that directory away, then festival will not find its schemes anymore.
      You can change the path at compile time by adding the following line to the end of the file:
      FTLIBDIR=path_to_festival_libdir
      i.e.:
      FTLIBDIR=/usr/share/festival/
       
    2. Add OGIresLPC, if needed
      Search the following line
      include $(EST)/config/config
      And add, after it, the following line
      ALSO_INCLUDE += OGIcommon OGIeffect OGIinsert OGIdbase OGIresLPC
       

  5. Edit festival/src/modules/Makefile

    This is only needed if You need OGIresLPC.
    Search the line containing
    OPTIONAL =
    Then, before the line containing
    ALL_DIRS =
    add
    OPTIONAL += OGIcommon OGIeffect OGIinsert OGIdbase OGIresLPC

Compile

Once configured, You can compile speech_tools and festival.
  1. cd speech_tools/
  2. ./configure && make
  3. cd ..
  4. cd festival/
  5. ./configure && make
  6. cd ..

Install

Put the contents of festival/lib/ inside the libdir directory You have choosen in the festival configuration files.
You can find the binary file in festival/src/main/

WARNING!!

While unzipping files use preferably 7zip or WinRar and if you want to use WinZip make sure that the smart CR/LF flag is not checked.

by Giulio PACI

Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - Sezione di Padova "Fonetica e Dialettologia"
CNR di Padova (e-mail: paci@pd.istc.cnr.it).
 
 

For more information please contact :

Piero Cosi

Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - Sezione di Padova "Fonetica e Dialettologia"
CNR di Padova (e-mail: cosi@pd.istc.cnr.it).

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