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* [[HTS voice for Festival README]] [#v8af90ea]
HTS voices for Festival 1.95 & 1.96
release December 29, 2006
Six HTS voices for Festival 1.95 & 1.96 trained by using
"CMU ARCTIC database" (http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/)
are released as a part of HMM-based Speech Synthesis System
(HTS) version 2.0 (http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/).
Each of HTS voices consists of HMMs trained by using HTS.
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Installation
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*** Installation of HTS Voice ***
(nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts.tar.gz, nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts.tar.gz,
nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz, nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts.tar.gz,
and nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz)
0) Download "nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts.tar.gz" from
http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/ and expand it in the directory
which you installed the Festival.
1) Run Festival
2) To change the current voice, type:
festival> (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts)
3) Now you can synthesize speech using the HTS voice in the
framework of Festival. See the manual of Festival.
Example:
festival > (intro)
festival > (SayText "Alice was beginning to get tired.")
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Who we are
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HTS working group is a voluntary group for developing the
HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System. Current HTS working group
members are
Keiichi Tokuda http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/
(Principle Designer)
Heiga Zen http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/
(Main Maintainer)
Jun-ichi Yamagishi http://www.kbys.ip.titech.ac.jp/yamagishi/
Takashi Masuko
Shinji Sako http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sako/profile.html.en
Alan W. Black http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
Takashi Nose
and the members are dynamically changing. The current formal
contact address of HTS working group and a mailing list for HTS
users can be found at http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/
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