1 2CMU ARCTIC BDL 0.95 3 4This directory contains a recording of the phonetically balanced US 5English CMU ARCTIC database by BDL, a US English speaker. 6 7See http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/ for details on the 8database coverage and other recordings of this dataset 9 10The format follows the Festvox (http://www.festvox.org) directory 11structure. 12 13The directory structure is 14 bin/ 15 basic scripts for building prompts, labelling feature files etc.s 16 cep/ 17 Ceptrum files dynamically created in phone autolabellingl 18 dic/ 19 Final diphone dictionary final (used at run-time) 20 etc/ 21 prompt file, and some labelling templates 22 festival/ 23 Not used in diphone bases 24 festvox/ 25 scheme voice definition files (used at run-time) 26 group/ 27 extracted diphones into signle group file for distribution 28 lab/ 29 autolabelled phone labels 30 lar/ 31 recorded EGG signal files (not used in this example) 32 lpc/ 33 LPC parameters plus residuals, (used at run-time for nongrouped version) 34 mcep/ 35 MFCC (Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients) not used in diphone databases 36 pm/ 37 Pitchmark files as extract from waveforms (or EGG signal) 38 pm_lab/ 39 derived pitchmark labeled files from pm/ enabling emulabel (and others 40 display programs) to show the pitchmarks and waveform files. 41 prompt-cep/ 42 cepstrum files for 43 prompt-lab/ 44 label files for synthesized prompts 45 prompt-wav/ 46 waveforms of synthesized prompts 47 prompt-utts/ 48 utterances of synthesized prompts 49 wav/ 50 recorded spoken nonsense words (in Microsoft riff (wav) format). 51 If you are using Xwaves you should convert these to NIST format 52 53INSTALLING AS A FESTIVAL VOICE 54============================== 55 56As distributed this voice may be used as a festival clunits voice with 57versions 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 of Festival (which is available from) 58 59 http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ or 60 http://www.festvox.org/festival/ 61 62You can run the voice "in place" or link it into your festival 63installation. 64 65To run "in place" from the database directory 66 67 festival festvox/cmu_us_bdl_arctic_clunits.scm 68 ... 69 festival> (voice_cmu_us_bdl_arctic_clunits) 70 ... 71 festival> (SayText "This is a short introduction ...") 72 73Or to install as voice in your Festival installation it must appear 74as a subdirectory of a subdirectory of a directory listed in the 75Festival variable voice-path. For standard installations you can 76create the following directory if it doesn't exist 77 78 /...WHATEVER.../festival/lib/voices/us/ 79 80For RPM installed systems (such as RedHat) this would be 81 82 /usr/share/festival/voices/us/ 83 84In that directory create a symbolic link to the arctic voice as in 85 86 ln -s /usr/local/arctic/cmu_us_bdl_arctic cmu_us_bdl_arctic_clunits 87 88Note the name in the us/ directory must be the name of the voice. 89 90This should allow festival to find the voice automatically thus 91 92 festival 93 ... 94 festival> (voice_cmu_us_bdl_arctic_clunits) 95 ... 96 festival> (SayText "This is a short introduction ...") 97 98 99 100 101 102