Flite

A Text to Speech engine for Linux.

A lightweight alternative to Festival.

For Debian users: apt-cache show flite, apt-get install flite

Flite: a small, fast run time synthesis engine

Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools.


 * http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/index.html