diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux.yaml b/.github/workflows/linux.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94f22c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+# Test on Linux Ubuntu with festival-2.5 with various Python and espeak versions
+
+name: Linux
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  python-version:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ['3.6', '3.7', '3.8', '3.9']
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout phonemizer
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get install espeak-ng festival mbrola mbrola-fr1
+
+      - name: Install phonemizer
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip pytest pytest-cov
+          python setup.py install
+
+      - name: Version phonemizer
+        run: phonemize --version
+
+      - name: Test phonemizer
+        run: pytest -v --cov=phonemizer --cov-report=xml test/
+
+      - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version == '3.9' }}
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
+        with:
+          files: coverage.xml
+          verbose: true
+
+  espeak-version:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        espeak-version: ['1.48.03', '1.49.2', '1.50', 'master']
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout phonemizer
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get install festival mbrola mbrola-fr1
+
+      - name: Install espeak-1.48
+        if: ${{ matrix.espeak-version == '1.48.03' }}
+        run: sudo apt install espeak
+
+      - name: Install espeak>=1.49
+        if: ${{ matrix.espeak-version != '1.48.03' }}
+        env:
+          ESPEAK_VERSION: ${{ matrix.espeak-version }}
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install make autoconf automake libtool pkg-config gcc libsonic-dev libpcaudio-dev git
+          git clone --depth 1 --branch $ESPEAK_VERSION https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng.git
+          cd espeak-ng
+          ./autogen.sh
+          ./configure
+          make
+          sudo make install
+          sudo ldconfig
+          espeak --version
+
+      - name: Install phonemizer
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip pytest
+          python setup.py install
+
+      - name: Version phonemizer
+        run: phonemize --version
+
+      - name: Test phonemizer
+        run: pytest -v
diff --git a/.github/workflows/macos.yaml b/.github/workflows/macos.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9f87c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/macos.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# Test on macos with festival-2.4 compiled from source and espeak-1.48 from
+# homebrew. To save time and ressources, festival is cached across runs.
+
+name: MacOS
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+
+    env:
+      PHONEMIZER_FESTIVAL_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/festival/build_festival/festival/bin/festival
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout phonemizer
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+
+      - name: Install espeak-1.48
+        run: |
+          brew update
+          brew install espeak
+
+      - name: Cache festival
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        id: cache-festival
+        with:
+          path: ${{ github.workspace }}/festival
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-festival
+
+      - name: Checkout festival
+        if: steps.cache-festival.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          repository: pettarin/setup-festival-mbrola
+          path: festival
+
+      - name: Install festival
+        if: steps.cache-festival.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          cd festival
+          bash setup_festival_mbrola.sh . festival
+
+      - name: Install phonemizer
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip
+          python setup.py install
+          pip install --upgrade pytest
+
+      - name: Version phonemizer
+        run: phonemize --version
+
+      - name: Test phonemizer
+        run: pytest -v
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_pypi.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish_pypi.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd8eefb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish_pypi.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Uppload to pypi on new tags
+
+name: Publish to Pypi
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: v*
+    branches: master
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout phonemizer
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get install espeak-ng festival mbrola mbrola-fr1
+
+      - name: Build phonemizer
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip pytest
+          python setup.py install
+          pytest
+          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+
+      - name: Publish to Pypi
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+        with:
+          user: __token__
+          password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows.yaml b/.github/workflows/windows.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7669d8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Test on windows with espeak-1.50 and festival-2.5
+
+name: Windows
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+
+    env:
+      PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH: "C:\\Program Files\\eSpeak NG\\espeak-ng.exe"
+      PHONEMIZER_FESTIVAL_PATH: "C:\\festival\\src\\main\\festival.exe"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout phonemizer
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+
+      - name: Cache festival
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        id: cache-festival
+        with:
+          path: |
+            C:\festival
+            C:\speech_tools
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-festival
+
+      - name: Install espeak
+        if: steps.cache-espeak.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          $source = 'https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/releases/download/1.50/espeak-ng-20191129-b702b03-x64.msi'
+          Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $source -OutFile espeak.msi
+          Start-Process msiexec.exe -Wait -ArgumentList '/I espeak.msi /qn'
+
+      - name: Install festival
+        if: steps.cache-festival.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          $uri = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/e-guidedog/files/related-third-party-software/0.3"
+
+          $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
+          $webclient.DownloadFile("$uri" + "/festival-2.5-win.7z", "festival-2.5.7z")
+          $webclient.DownloadFile("$uri" + "/speech_tools-2.5-win.7z", "speech_tools-2.5.7z")
+
+          set-alias sz "$env:ProgramFiles\7-Zip\7z.exe"
+          sz x -oC:\ festival-2.5.7z
+          sz x -oC:\ speech_tools-2.5.7z
+
+      - name: Install phonemizer
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip pytest
+          python setup.py install
+
+      - name: Version phonemizer
+        run: |
+          phonemize --version
+
+      - name: Test phonemizer
+        run: pytest -v
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5d4a843..98fdc3b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 /build/*
 /dist/*
 .coverage*
+coverage.xml
 htmlcov/*
 .eggs/*
 test/htmlcov
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 53b55cc..0000000
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-before_script:
-  # load the requested modules on oberon
-  - module load anaconda/3 festival/2.4 mbrola
-
-phonemizer-build:
-  stage: build
-  script:
-    # create a Python virtual environment dedicated to the test (if not existing)
-    - conda create --name phonemizer-ci python=3 2> /dev/null || true
-    - conda activate phonemizer-ci
-
-    # install dependencies for testing
-    - pip install --upgrade pytest coverage
-
-    # install phonemizer
-    - python setup.py install
-
-.phonemizer-test: &phonemizer-test
-# run the unit tests within the CI environment
-- conda activate phonemizer-ci
-- phonemize --version
-- coverage run && coverage report
-
-phonemizer-test-espeak-1-48-04:
-  stage: test
-  script:
-    # run the unit tests within the CI environment
-    - module unload espeak && module load espeak/1.48.04
-    - *phonemizer-test
-
-phonemizer-test-espeak-1-49-2:
-  stage: test
-  script:
-    # run the unit tests within the CI environment
-    - module unload espeak && module load espeak/1.49.2
-    - *phonemizer-test
-
-phonemizer-test-espeak-1-50:
-  stage: test
-  script:
-    # run the unit tests within the CI environment
-    - module unload espeak && module load espeak/1.50
-    - *phonemizer-test
-
-phonemizer-oberon:
-  # install phonemizer in the "wordseg" virtual environment on oberon (users just
-  # have to type "conda activate wordseg" to use it)
-  stage: deploy
-  script:
-    - conda activate wordseg
-    - cd /shared/apps/phonemizer
-    - git pull origin master
-    - python setup.py install
-  only:
-    - tags
-
-phonemizer-pypi:
-  # upload the release on PyPI
-  stage: deploy
-  script:
-    - conda activate phonemizer-ci
-    - pip install -U twine
-    - rm -rf dist
-    - python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-    - twine check dist/*
-    - twine upload -u $TWINE_USERNAME -p $TWINE_PASSWORD --non-interactive dist/*
-  only:
-    - tags
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d4196dd..0000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-dist: focal
-language: python
-python:
-  - "3.6"
-  - "3.7"
-  - "3.8"
-
-addons:
-  apt:
-    update: true
-    packages:
-      - festival
-      - festvox-us1
-      - festlex-cmu
-      - festlex-poslex
-      - espeak-ng
-      - mbrola
-      - mbrola-fr1
-
-# no need of git history
-git:
-  depth: 1
-
-# test only the master branch
-branches:
-  only:
-    - master
-
-install:
-  - pip install --upgrade pip
-  - python setup.py install
-  - pip install --upgrade pytest coverage codecov
-
-script:
-  - phonemize --version
-  - pytest
-
-after_success:
-  - coverage run
-  - codecov
-
-cache:
-  - pip
-
-notifications:
-  email: false
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2d7e822..a563317 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/bootphon/phonemizer.svg?branch=master)](
-https://travis-ci.com/bootphon/phonemizer)
+[![Linux](https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/actions/workflows/linux.yaml/badge.svg?branch=master)](
+https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/actions/workflows/linux.yaml)
+[![MacOS](https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/actions/workflows/macos.yaml/badge.svg?branch=master)](
+https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/actions/workflows/macos.yaml)
+[![Windows](https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/actions/workflows/windows.yaml/badge.svg?branch=master)](
+https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/actions/workflows/windows.yaml)
 [![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/bootphon/phonemizer)](
-https://codecov.io/gh/bootphon/phonemizer)
-[![GitHub release (latest SemVer)](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/bootphon/phonemizer)](
+https://codecov.io/gh/bootphon/phonemizer) [![GitHub release (latest
+SemVer)](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/bootphon/phonemizer)](
 https://github.com/bootphon/phonemizer/releases/latest)
 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/56728069.svg)](
 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1045825)
diff --git a/phonemizer/backend/festival.py b/phonemizer/backend/festival.py
index 22fd83c..ac1d89e 100644
--- a/phonemizer/backend/festival.py
+++ b/phonemizer/backend/festival.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import shlex
 import shutil
 import subprocess
+import sys
 import tempfile
 
 import phonemizer.lispy as lispy
@@ -184,8 +185,13 @@ def _process(self, text):
                 data.write(text)
                 data.close()
 
+                # fix the path name for windows
+                name = data.name
+                if sys.platform == 'win32':  # pragma: nocover
+                    name = name.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+
                 # the Scheme script to be send to festival
-                scm_script = open(self.script, 'r').read().format(data.name)
+                scm_script = open(self.script, 'r').read().format(name)
 
                 with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w+', delete=False) as scm:
                     try:
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index a09d993..13e773a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@ filterwarnings =
 source-dir = doc/source
 build-dir = doc/build
 
-[coverage:run]
-command_line = -m pytest
-source = phonemizer
-
 [coverage:report]
 exclude_lines =
     pragma: nocover
diff --git a/test/__init__.py b/test/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/test/test_espeak.py b/test/test_espeak.py
index aaa63f8..1ff73c6 100644
--- a/test/test_espeak.py
+++ b/test/test_espeak.py
@@ -68,8 +68,12 @@ def test_french():
 
 
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
-    not EspeakBackend.is_espeak_ng(),
-    reason='Arabic is only supported by espeak-ng')
+    (
+        not EspeakBackend.is_espeak_ng() or
+        # Arabic is not supported by the Windows msi installer from espeak-ng
+        # github release
+        not EspeakBackend.is_supported_language('ar')),
+    reason='Arabic is not supported')
 def test_arabic():
     backend = EspeakBackend('ar')
     text = u'السلام عليكم'
diff --git a/test/test_festival.py b/test/test_festival.py
index fc64bd7..bcb1bbf 100644
--- a/test/test_festival.py
+++ b/test/test_festival.py
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ def test_path_good():
         FestivalBackend.set_festival_path(None)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    'PHONEMIZER_FESTIVAL_PATH' in os.environ,
+    reason='environment variable precedence')
 def test_path_bad():
     try:
         # corrupt the default espeak path, try to use python executable instead
diff --git a/test/test_main.py b/test/test_main.py
index 2d45cbe..a33392b 100644
--- a/test/test_main.py
+++ b/test/test_main.py
@@ -14,33 +14,36 @@
 # along with phonemizer. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 """Test of the command line interface"""
 
-import pytest
+import pathlib
 import tempfile
 import shlex
 import sys
 
+import pytest
+
 from phonemizer.backend import EspeakBackend, EspeakMbrolaBackend
 from phonemizer import main, backend, logger
 
 
 def _test(input, expected_output, args=''):
-    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w') as finput:
-        # python2 needs additional utf8 encoding
-        if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
-            input = input.encode('utf8')
-        finput.write(input)
-        finput.seek(0)
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
+        input_file = pathlib.Path(tmpdir) / 'input.txt'
+        output_file = pathlib.Path(tmpdir) / 'output.txt'
+        with open(input_file, 'wb') as finput:
+            finput.write(input.encode('utf8'))
+
+        sys.argv = ['unused', f'{input_file}', '-o', f'{output_file}']
+        if args:
+            sys.argv += shlex.split(args)
+        main.main()
 
-        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w+') as foutput:
-            opts = '{} -o {} {}'.format(finput.name, foutput.name, args)
-            sys.argv = ['foo'] + shlex.split(opts)
-            main.main()
+        with open(output_file, 'rb') as foutput:
+            output = foutput.read().decode()
 
-            output = foutput.read()
-            if expected_output == '':
-                assert output == ''
-            else:
-                assert output == expected_output + '\n'
+        if expected_output == '':
+            assert output == ''
+        else:
+            assert output == expected_output + '\n'
 
 
 def test_help():
@@ -127,10 +130,15 @@ def test_espeak_mbrola():
 
 def test_espeak_path():
     espeak = backend.EspeakBackend.espeak_path()
+    if sys.platform == 'win32':
+        espeak = str(espeak).replace('\\', '\\\\').replace(' ', '\\ ')
     _test(u'hello world', u'həloʊ wɜːld ', f'--espeak-path={espeak}')
 
 
 def test_festival_path():
-    festival = backend.FestivalBackend.festival_path()
+    festival = pathlib.Path(backend.FestivalBackend.festival_path())
+    if sys.platform == 'win32':
+        festival = str(festival).replace('\\', '\\\\').replace(' ', '\\ ')
+
     _test(u'hello world', u'hhaxlow werld ',
           f'--festival-path={festival} -b festival')