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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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The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
HTS Working Group
Department of Computer Science
Nagoya Institute of Technology
and
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Copyright (c) 2001-2006
All Rights Reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and
distribute this software and its documentation without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
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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/