= Voice building for a new language =


== 1. Download xml dump of wikipedia in your language  ==

== 2. Extract clean text and most frequent words ==

== 3. Transcribe most frequent words == 

 a. Create pronunciation dictionary and train letter-to-sound rules
 b. Minimal NLP components for the new language

== 4. Run feature maker with the minimal nlp components ==

== 5. Database selection ==

 select a phonetically/prosodically balanced recording script

== 6. Manually check/correct transcription of all words in the recording script [Optional] ==

== 7. Record script with a native speaker using our recording tool "Redstart" ==

== 8. Build an unit selection and/or hmm-based voice with Voice import tool ==