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diff --git a/audio/festvox-mbrola/pkg/DESCR b/audio/festvox-mbrola/pkg/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..08e923e1a5a --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/festvox-mbrola/pkg/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +MBROLA based British English male voice for the festival speech synthesis system. + +This voice provides a British RP English male voice using the MBROLA +wave synthesis method (via the MBROLA package). It uses a modified +Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary 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. + +This voice can be activated via (voice_rab_mbrola) + +-Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> |