FLITE text-to-speech

Here's an interesting project. This is a Pocket PC 2003 compile of the FLITE 1.3 speech synthesis engine. FLITE is a subset of the fine Festival engine. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well as an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. Even if FLITE is only a subset, it still compiles to about an 2,5 Mb executable.

There is no source-code available for this item, since I didn't really code anything. FLITE is maintained by the CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) and already boasts experimental Windows CE support, so all I did was craft a project file and the little GUI. The source code for FLITE is available here.

The main authors of FLITE, Kevin A. Lenzo and Alan W Black excuses the "poor" speech quality. The sample rate is only 8 KHz and the speech rules are supposeably not one of the best samples around, but it shows the potential.

Installation Requirements

Pocket PC 2003

Installation Guide

Unzip the file to a temporary folder
Execute the Install.vbs script to install the CAB file.

Useful Links

FLITE homepage

Download Files

FLITE for PocketPC 2003
Source Code (project files only) (27 Kb)

Article submitted 10/24/2003.