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authorproff <proff>1999-10-11 16:51:41 +0000
committerproff <proff>1999-10-11 16:51:41 +0000
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tree96ab432c453bfa0c8743944420770361aefaac46 /audio/festvox-us3/pkg
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downloadpkgsrc-1ff8b46a94c0007e64166ade3e3a6db98498bda0.tar.gz
MBROLA based American English male voice for the festival speech
synthesis system. This voice provides a American English male voice using the MBROLA synthesis method. It uses a modified CMU lexicon for pronunciations. Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically trained model using part of speech and local distribution of breaks. Intonation is provided by a CART tree predicting ToBI accents and an F0 contour generated from a model trained from natural speech. The duration model is also trained from data using a CART tree. The quality of this voice is not as high as us1 and us2 This voice can be activated via (voice_us3_mbrola) -Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
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+MBROLA based American English male voice for festival
diff --git a/audio/festvox-us3/pkg/DESCR b/audio/festvox-us3/pkg/DESCR
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+MBROLA based American English male voice for the festival speech
+synthesis system.
+
+This voice provides a American English male voice using the MBROLA
+synthesis method. It uses a modified CMU lexicon for pronunciations.
+Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically trained model using
+part of speech and local distribution of breaks. Intonation is
+provided by a CART tree predicting ToBI accents and an F0 contour
+generated from a model trained from natural speech. The duration
+model is also trained from data using a CART tree.
+
+The quality of this voice is not as high as us1 and us2
+
+This voice can be activated via (voice_us3_mbrola)
+
+-Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
diff --git a/audio/festvox-us3/pkg/PLIST b/audio/festvox-us3/pkg/PLIST
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+@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.1.1.1 1999/10/11 16:51:41 proff Exp $
+@comment the next two entries are symlinks
+share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola/us3mrpa
+share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola/us3
+share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola/usradio
+share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola/festvox/us3_mbrola.scm
+share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola/festvox/usdurtreeZ.scm
+@dirrm share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola/festvox
+@dirrm share/festival/lib/voices/english/us3_mbrola