[Fwd: FT: HMM-based speech synthesis toolkit Ver. 1.1.1]

[Phil's Free <philsfree@free.fr>]

Vu sur la liste Festival.

Ca m'a l'air d'être un toolkit anti-diphones ;-)

Probablement à creuser.

Qui s'y colle ?

-- 
Phil


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> From: Heiga ZEN <zen@ics.nitech.ac.jp>> To: festival-talk@cstr.ed.ac.uk> Subject: FT: HMM-based speech synthesis toolkit Ver. 1.1.1
> Date: 30 Dec 2003 18:08:32 +0900
> 
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> Dear all,
> 
> This e-mail is to let you notice the release of our software
> 
>           The HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
> 	    version 1.1.1 release December 26, 2003
> 
> for HMM-based speech synthesis.  We apologize if you receive
> multiple copies.  Please check
> 
>    http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/
> 
> A brief explanation of this software is attached bellow.
> 
> ****************************************************************
> 
>           The HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
>             version 1.1.1 release December 26, 2003
>                                 
> The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
> (http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/) has been being developed by the
> HTS working group (see "Who we are" below) and others (see
> "Acknowledgments" below).  The training part of HTS was
> implemented as a modified version of the HTK
> (http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/) together with the SPTK
> (http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/SPTK/).  Modifications
> which we made to HTK are listed below:
> 
>  - Context clustering based on MDL criterion (instead of ML one)
>  - Stream-dependent context clustering
>  - Multi-space probability distribution as state output
>    probability (for pitch pattern modeling)
>  - State duration modeling and clustering
> 
> Related publications about the techniques and algorithms used in
> HTS can be found at http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/publications.html
> 
> The current version does not include any text analyzer but the
> Festival Speech Synthesis System
> (http://www.festvox.org/festival/) can be used as a text
> analyzer.  HTS version 1.1.1 includes a small run-time synthesis
> engine (less than 1 M byte including HMMs).  Since the synthesis
> engine can run without the HTK library, it is suitable for using
> on the Festival.
> 
> This distribution comes with a demo script using "CMU ARCTIC US
> English awb" (http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/dbs_awb.html),
> which generates "voices" for Festival.
> 
> Two HTS voices for Festival trained by using 450 utterances of
> "CSTR US KED Timit" (http://www.festvox.org/dbs/dbs_kdt.html)
> and 523 utterances of "CMU Communicator KAL limited domain"
> (http://www.festvox.org/dbs/dbs_com.html), respectively, and
> four HTS voices for Festival trained by using "CMU ARCTIC
> database" (http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/) are also released
> with HTS version 1.1.1.  Each of HTS voices consists of HMMs
> trained by the demo script and the small run-time synthesis
> engine, and can be used as a "voice" of Festival Speech
> Synthesis System without any other HTS tools.
> 
> *** Notes for Japanese speech synthesis ***
> 
> A demo script using the NIT database for speech synthesis "NIT
> JP ATR503 m001" is also prepared for training Japanese voices.
> 
> Voices trained by the demo script can be used on GalateaTalk,
> which is a speech synthesis module of an open-source toolkit for
> anthropomorphic spoken dialogue agents developed in Galatea
> project (http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~galatea/), without any
> other HTS tools.
> 
> An HTS voice for GalateaTalk trained by the demo script is also
> released with HTS version 1.1.1.
> 
> 
> ****************************************************************
>                    What's new in version 1.1.1
> ****************************************************************
> 
>  - Based on HTK-3.2.1
>  - Demo script for ARCTIC database
>  - Demo script for an original database (Japanese)
>  - Variance flooring in demo script
>  - Postfiltering in hts-engine
>  - Many fixed bugs
> 
> ****************************************************************
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Keiichi Tokuda
> 
> tokuda@ics.nitech.ac.jp> http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/
> 
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>   Heiga Zen
>   Depertment of Computer Science and Engineering
>   Graduate School of Engineering
>   Nagoya Institute of Technology
>   Japan
> 
>   e-mail: zen@ics.nitech.ac.jp>      web: http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen
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