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List:       festlang-talk
Subject:    [festival-talk] Getting cmu voices to work with festival
From:       awb () cs ! cmu ! edu (Alan W Black)
Date:       2006-03-06 1:41:42
Message-ID: 440B9356.9080604 () cs ! cmu ! edu
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message from Alan W Black <awb at cs.cmu.edu> to festival-talk
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Jason Dodd wrote:
> message from Jason Dodd <jasorn at gmail.com> to festival-talk
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> Hello,
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> I'm new to this list but not to lists in general.  I've been looking for 
> information on how to use festival to create audiobooks with a voice I 
> can tolerate.  Most of the documentation I've found hasn't been updated 
> in years and much of what I've tried to follow doesn't seem to work for 
> me.  If one site is better than others please point me there.
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>  From what I gather, the best I'm going to do is use cmu voices and 
> apparently I need to convert them so festival can use them.  I found a 
> reference to a script that will do this but can't find the link to the 
> script.  I do see there is a cmu2ft executable here but can't find a man 
> page and help doesn't provide help.
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> Any advice or pointing to good documentation would be appreciated.
> Also, is this list online somewhere I can search or do I have to 
> download it and search it once it's on my hd?

Documentation is available at
     http://www.festvox.org/docs/manual-1.4.3/festival_toc.html
1.4.3 is good for all versions up to the latest.

You are probably looking for the script text2wave which will convert 
text to a waveform file for later processing to mp3 or whatever.

Alan

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