VOICES and LEXICONS =================== LEXICONS -------- festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English. REQUIRED BY ALL BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH VOICES. festlex_CMU.tar.gz CMU dict (0.4) in Festival form. REQUIRED BY AMERICAN ENGLISH VOICES. festlex_OALD.tar.gz Computer User's Version of Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictiction of Current English, in Festival form. (Available for non-commercial use only). REQUIRED BY BRITISH ENGLISH VOICES.. DIPHONE VOICES ------------- festvox_rablpc16k.tar.gz British English RP male speaker using residual excited LPC diphone database, requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_OALD.tar.gz festvox_rablpc8k.tar.gz Same as festvox_rablpc16k.tar.gz but at 8KHz sampling. requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_OALD.tar.gz festvox_don.tar.gz British English RP male speaker using spike excited LPC diphone database, small database give poorer quality but runs fast. requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_OALD.tar.gz festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz American English male speaker (KAL) using residual excited LPC diphone database, requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_kallpc8k.tar.gz Same as festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz but at 8KHz sampling. requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_kedlpc16k.tar.gz American English male speaker using residual excited LPC diphone database, requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_kedlpc8k.tar.gz Same as festvox_kedlpc16k.tar.gz but at 8KHz sampling. requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_ellpc11k.tar.gz Castilian Spanish male speaker using residual excited LPC diphone. Requires no further lexicons, not complete but adequate. HTS VOICES ---------- festvox_cmu_us_bdl_arctic_hts.tar.gz Based on the CMU_ARTIC "bdl" (US English male) using Nagoya Institute of Technology's HTS based synthesizer requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts.tar.gz Based on the CMU_ARTIC "slt" (US English female) using Nagoya Institute of Technology's HTS based synthesizer requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_cmu_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz Based on the CMU_ARTIC "jmk" (Canadian English Male but uses US English front end) using Nagoya Institute of Technology's HTS based synthesizer requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts.tar.gz Based on the CMU_ARTIC "awb" (Scottish English male, but using US English front end) and using Nagoya Institute of Technology's HTS based synthesizer requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz MULTISYN VOICES --------------- festvox_cstr_us_jmk_arctic_multisyn-1.0.tar.gz Canadian English male speaker (JMK), using excited residual LPC multisyn database. (Note this is about 100MB) requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn-1.0.tar.gz `Scottish' English male speaker (AWB), using US English front end, using excited residual LPC multisyn database. (Note this is about 100MB) requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz DIPHONE VOICES -- MBROLA WRAPPERS --------------------------------- festvox_en1.tar.gz British English RP male speaker (same db as rablpc16k) but uses MBROLA. This requires the MBROLA prorgram and en1 English database available from http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html. This also requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_OALD.tar.gz festvox_us1.tar.gz American English female speaker using the MBROLA us1 database This requires the MBROLA prorgram and us1 English database (~6Meg) available from http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html. This also requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_us2.tar.gz American English male speaker using the MBROLA us2 database This requires the MBROLA prorgram and us2 English database (~6Meg) available from http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html. This also requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz festvox_us3.tar.gz American English male speaker using the MBROLA us2 database. This is not as good as us1 and us2. This requires the MBROLA prorgram and us3 English database (~6Meg) available from http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html. This also requires festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz