| | 1 | = MARY TTS 4.2.0: Release notes = |
| | 2 | [http://mary.dfki.de/download/4.2.0/openmary-standalone-install-4.2.0.jar Download MARY TTS 4.2.0] |
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| | 4 | This is a feature release, adding new features while maintaining compatibility with existing 4.x voices. |
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| | 6 | This release marks the final results of work on MARY TTS in the [http://www.semaine-project.eu SEMAINE project], where our main focus for TTS has been on building expressive British English voices with listener vocalisation capabilities. |
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| | 8 | == New features for synthesis of expressive vocalizations == |
| | 9 | * Improved support for expressive vocalizations in the British English unit selection voices dfki-poppy, dfki-prudence, dfki-spike and dfki-obadiah. Signal modification is now used to combine intonation contours and segmental forms, as described in [http://www.dfki.de/lt/publication_show.php?id=4886 Pammi et al. (2010)]. |
| | 10 | * Added vocalization support to the HMM-based versions of these voices: dfki-poppy-hsmm, dfki-prudence-hsmm, dfki-spike-hsmm and dfki-obadiah-hsmm. |
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| | 12 | For details on the new MaryXML <vocalization> tag and usage examples, see VocalizationSynthesis. |
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| | 14 | == New voice == |
| | 15 | * For German, we created bits1-hsmm, a female HMM-based voice built from recordings provided by [http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Forschung/BITS/index.html BITS]. |
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| | 17 | == Bugfixes == |
| | 18 | * This release also includes a number of bugfixes, see [[BR]]http://mary.opendfki.de/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=4.2 |
