Festival Czech provides Czech support to Festival speech synthesis system.
Together with Festival and Czech diphone database it provides complete speech
output in Czech.

Festival Czech is basically independent on a particular voice, new voices can
be created to be used with Festival Czech.

Czech Festival speech synthesis is developed by Brailcom, o.p.s. Nadační fond
ÄŒeskĂŠho rozhlasu, Seznam.cz, a.s. and European Commission (the Leonardo da
Vinci program) provided financial contributions to the project. Institute of
Phonetics at Faculty of Philosophy & Arts, Charles University, Prague, led by
prof. PhDr. Zdena PalkovĂĄ, CSc. provided expert knowledge and consultations.

Authors:
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Milan Zamazal