festival-freebsoft-utils is a collection of Festival utilities that
enhance Festival with some useful features.  They provide all what is
needed for interaction with Speech Dispatcher.

Key festival-freebsoft-utils features are:

- Generalized concept of input events.  festival-freebsoft-utils
  allows not only plain text synthesis, but also combining it with
  sounds.  Additionally, mechanism of logical events mapped to other
  events is provided.

- Substitution of events for given words.

- High-level voice selection mechanism and setting of basic prosodic
  parameters.

- Spelling mode.

- Capital letter signalization.