Festival TTS
Contents
Getting Started
- Festival Speech Synthesis System - http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
- build on os x with do_prompt capabilities - http://linguisticmystic.com/2011/07/15/using-festival-tts-on-os-x/
- this is a class - http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/15-492/assignments/tts/index.html
Learning
- Book - http://festvox.org/festvox/book1.html
- short tutorial - http://festvox.org/festtut-2.0/
- exercises and hints - http://festvox.org/festtut-2.0/exercises/
Training a Voice Model
- howto http://festvox.org/festvox/c3170.html#AEN3172
- training text input - http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/cmuarctic.data
- useful tips http://festvox.org/index.html, including name for EMU speech database system http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/emu/
- Building a Unit Selection Cluster Voice - http://festvox.org/festvox/x3082.html
- Building a CLUSTERGEN Statistical Parametric Synthesizer: http://festvox.org/festvox/c3170.html#AEN3172
changes
- instead of:
festival -b festvox/build_clunits.scm '(build_prompts "etc/uniphone.data")'
do:
festival -b festvox/build_clunits.scm '(build_prompts_waves "etc/uniphone.data")'
- instead of:
./bin/make_pm_wave wav/*.wav
./bin/make_pm_wave etc/uniphone.data