[hts-users:00563] Re: HTS voices used in the demos.

["Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)" <zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Manoj Bist wrote:

> Are the HTS voices used for the demos available in the following link
> available to public?
>
> http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/nitech-naist-hts_blizzard2006/

Sorry, no.
Because they are trained using ATR's proprietary speech database.
They are not freely available.
Furthermore, one of the key technologies used in this system, STRAIGHT, is patented.

> In general is there an open source repository of voices for those who
> are not experts in voice/speech synthesis?

I don't know much about this but I know several open-source TTS softwares such as FreeTTS, Emacspeak, KTTSD.
Most of them are based on Festival.

Regards,

Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)


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