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Searching for info about German text to speech, I came across a "Dialog-based Human-Technology Interaction by Coordinated Analysis and Generation of Multiple Modalities", as well as this page, which I can't really parse. I mean, it mentions festival several times...

Hm...

I've loaded voices and languages into festival using apt-get, for Finnish, Spanish, Czech, and Russian.

I've also loaded voices into festival by wget-ing some files and renaming them in accordance with festival's directory structure.

So... is there a way to use either of those two methods to enable German text to speech on my machine?

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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As a native speaker, I can assure you, the page you mentioned lists several developments of german voices on top of festival.

But you need to follow the link to the several commercial or academic offerings, and some are in german only. Maybe MBROLA voices are worth looking at for your intentions.

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The Institute for Natural Language Processing in Stuttgart offers an open source distribution for festival. You have to fill in your name in the form and they will send you a link to the files.

There is only a demo page, where you can try the system with arbitrary text.

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