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Things to set up environment

(by Aleś Bułojčyk) alex73mail at gmail.com

Existing voice creation software is not user friendly at all. Below is my notes about creating voice, step-by-step with exact commands. I hope it will help somebody for create new voice.

But keep in mind, I created voice, but quality is far away from normal yet. Looks like I made mistake in some parameters, or even skipped some required step.

WBR, Alex.

Voice creation

This is my notes about HTS voice creation. It's not so simple process, because it requires many software, and most software should be compiled from sources. Voice creation depends on voice recognition. That's why we need to use voice recognition software too.

Useful links

Some demos, that can show possible quality of voice synthesis: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/onlinedemo.html http://festvox.org/voicedemos.html

Some docs: http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/docs/docs.shtml

http://www.voxforge.org/home/dev/acousticmodels/linux/create/htkjulius/tutorial

Docs from MaryTTS: https://github.com/marytts/marytts/wiki/HMMVoiceCreation

1. Setting up the environment

2. Voice compiling