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diff --git a/audio/festvox-us1/DESCR b/audio/festvox-us1/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8c0749a999b --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/festvox-us1/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +MBROLA based American English female voice for the festival speech +synthesis system. + +This voice provides a American English female 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. + +This voice can be activated via (voice_us1_mbrola) |