Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of VoiceImportToolsTutorial

Timestamp:

09/12/07 12:28:13 (17 years ago)

Author:

sach01

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VoiceImportToolsTutorial

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 This Tutorial explains the procedure to build a new voice with Voice Import Tools (VIT) under MARY Environment.
 
-Voice Import Tool is a Graphical User Interface(GUI), which contains a set of Voice Import Components and helps the user to build new voices under MARY(Modular Architecture for Research in speech sYnthesis) Environment. This GUI Tool designing is primarily aims to build new voices very easily by any user with out knowing much technical details of Speech Synthesis.
+ Voice Import Tool is a Graphical User Interface(GUI), which contains a set of Voice Import Components and helps the user to build new voices under MARY(Modular Architecture for Research in speech sYnthesis) Environment. This GUI Tool designing is primarily aims to build new voices very easily by any user with out knowing much technical details of Speech Synthesis.
 
 Currently, Voice Import Tool supports following  categories mainly:
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  * Operating System - Linux (Recommended)
- * MARY TTS Recent Version 
- * Openmary 
+ * MARY TTS Recent Version - Download Link: http://mary.dfki.de/Download
+ * Openmary - SVN from http://mary.opendfki.de
 
 (we also able to use Windows also, if we can able to compile properly the following dependent tools.)
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 == How to run? ==
 
-1. Create a new Voice Building Directory 
+1. First you need to have following 2 basic requirements for Voice Building
+
+                  a. Wave files 
+                  b. Corresponding Transcription (in MARY or Festival Format) 
+    
+2. Create a new Voice Building Directory 
   
    - Put all Wave files in "wav" directory
-   - Put corresponding text files(in MARY Format) in "text" directory 
- 
-2. Run below commands through Shell script from Voice Building Directory.
+   
+3. Run below commands through Shell script from Voice Building Directory.
 
 
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 }}}
 
+When you are running first time above shell script, It asks you some basic configuration settings.
+Global Configuration Settings window looks like below: 
+
+{{{
+#!html
+<p>
+<img src="http://www.dfki.de/~chandra/VIC/VIC2.jpg" align="middle">
+</p>
+}}}
+
+'''Global Configuration Settings:'''
 
 
+ Domain   - general or  limited[[BR]]
+
+ Gender   - male or female[[BR]]
+
+ Locale   - which specifies language of domain (de - Deutsch or en - English) [[BR]]
+
+ (Currently,  MARY supporting 2 language only: 1. Deutsch 2. English)[[BR]]
+
+ Marybase - MARY Installation Directory (Global Path)[[BR]]
+
+ Rootdir  - Voice Building Directory (Global Path)[[BR]]
+
+ Wavdir   - Where we can store Wave files [[BR]]
+
+ Textdir  - Where we can store corresponding Transcriptions [[BR]]
+
+
+ 
+ 
+ 
 
 ( '''Under Construction''' - to continued)