This is the Kiswahili TTS system produced by the University of Nairobi. There are two tar files: 1. UON_swahili_kw_v1.0.tar is the Kiswahili Voice distribution v1.0 2. UON_swahili_kw_database.tar is the voice database (also available as 10 separate tars) All tars should be untarred from the directory where speech_tools and festival are. Here are some notes on them: The voice untars into its own kiswahili directory at the top level, except for the main scheme file, which is placed in festival/lib/voices-multisyn/kiswahili/UON_swahili_kw_multisyn. The database tar(s) will untar into the database directory: kiswahili/UON_swahili_kw_multisyn/db/lpc Running the UON Kiswahili System -------------------------------- (a) run festival/bin/festival (b) ignore the warnings about no voice. First load the Kiswahili voice: (voice_UON_swahili_kw_multisyn) (c) once the voice has loaded you can synthesize your file by giving the command: (SayText "text"), or any of the other festival synthesis commands Roger Tucker Ksenia Shalanova Feb 2004