Festival Speech Synthesis System

The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a free software speech synthesizer that can also be used with for singing synthesis. It was developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) of the University of Edinburgh. For better singing support there was a plugin called Flinger (Festival Singer) developed at OGI School of Science and Engineering. It was actually released before VOCALOID in 2001. Free(b)soft has contributed Czech diphone voices and a barrier-free editor similar to the VOCALOID editor.

Flinger has been used by fans in the western world for creating demo songs. Unlike VOCALOID it has not been used to create J-Pop songs.

song1 Alex B. Kain, "Search", Mar 12, 2001

song2 Rurik Leffanta, "Virtual Paradise", Nov 17

song3 Rurik Leffanta, "Dawn", Dec 17, 2001

song4 Giddy Sadan, "TTS Blues", Jan 28, 2002

song5 Ruggero Ruschioni, "Monteverdi - L'Orfeo (excerpt)"

song6 Giddy Sadan, "TTS Blues (Remix)", Feb 19, 2002

song7 Jonas Eckerman, "She (version 1)", Apr 27, 2002

song8 Jonas Eckerman, "She (version 3)", Apr 27, 2002

song9 Jonas Eckerman, "The Soldiers Are Marching Out", Apr 27, 2002

song10 Garrett Miller, "Like the stars", Oct 9, 2002

song11 Jonas Eckerman, "Want, Don't Want (version 1)", Feb 20, 2003

song12 Jonas Eckerman, "Want, Don't Want (version 2)", Feb 20, 2003

song13 Jonas Eckerman, "Rhyme & Reason", Feb 20, 2003

song14 Jonas Eckerman, "She (version 3, remix)", Feb 20, 2003

song15 Hans van Olphen (hvolphen@home.nl), "The easy way (country style)", Feb 28, 2003

song16 Richard deCosta, "K'ai - Eyes swim", Mar 15, 2003

song17 Andrew Olson, "Your Time Is Up", Mar 15, 2003

song18 Ben Fisher, "Be Kind To Your Virtual Friends :)", Feb 26, 2004

song19 Cerebral (Matt Tuozzo), "Primrose Garden (Theme from Starship Wanamaker)", Mar 1, 2004

Jonas Eckerman is also known as AAahAAA and offers his songs for free download.

Most Voicebanks for Festival are avialable under a free license, where VOCALOID (and UTAU) use proprierty licenses. However the voicebanks that come with Flinger are still proprierty.