This is Festival 1.4.1 with OGIresLPC, the residual LPC synthesizer plugin from the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Health & Science University (formerly Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology). The plugin "provides a new signal processing engine and new voices" (it is needed by the abc, aec, hvs, jph, mwm and tll voices) but is for non-commercial use only. from the Festival authors: The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual text-to-speech system for Unix platforms. It is written in C++ and includes a Scheme-based scripting language. Included with Festival are lexicons and voices that together form a whole text-to-speech system. For output via esd do: (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'esdaudio) NAS and direct output are documented in section 23 of the manual. WWW: http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/tts/ http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/