A Python wrapper around the Festival Speech Synthesis System.
- First install the Python, Festival and their headers
On Debian:
sudo apt-get install python python-dev festival festival-dev
On other operating systems (e.g. macOS) you may need to manually install festival. E.g. [1] or [2]
- 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/festivalSPEECH_INCLUDE- speech tools header directory. Default is/usr/include/speech_toolsFESTIVAL_LIB- lib directory for festival/speech tools/usr/lib
Festival is not thread-safe. If you attempt to invoke it from a thread other than which is was imported in then you will see the error:
SIOD ERROR: the currently assigned stack limit has been exceeded
It may be imported locally in each new thread once the previous thread has exited.