The Sinhala Text-to-Speech Project was a major deleverable of PAN Localization project, funded by the IDRC of Canada. This system is the result of two years of research by the Language Technology Research Laboratory (LTRL), University of Colombo School of Computing(UCSC), Sri Lanka.

The aim was to produce a free and open-source Sinhala Text-to-Speech synthesis engine of commercial quality. The system is based on the Festival speech synthesizer, developed at University of Edinburgh.

The resources are available under GNU General Public License.