About This Site
This is a set of how-to instructions and other resources for building
voices with Festival, HTS, and Merlin. These instructions are fairly specific
to the research we are doing, and as such do not cover everything that
one might want to do with these tools. This is not a manual,
but rather a guide and set of recipes for the various tasks
involved in the experiments we are doing. This site is mainly
intended for Speech Lab students, however anyone may feel free to use it. Please address any questions about
using the various software tools to their respective help lists.
Tools
HTS: The Hidden Markov Model based speech synthesis toolkit.
Main website and
searchable email
help list. There is no official manual for HTS but it is
generally recommended to look at the
HTK Book.
Festival: General speech synthesis framework.
Main website
and mailing lists.
Merlin: Neural Network based speech synthesis toolkit.
Github page and
issues
page with Q&A.
Corpora
Many of the corpora we are using are available through the LDC:
CALLHOME,
MACROPHONE,
BABEL,
and Turkish broadcast
news.
The CMU ARCTIC databases
are also available online.