======================================================================== --- OGIgerman --- OGI German Synthesizer version 2.0 Dec 1999 http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts Mike Macon Andrew Cronk Alexander Kain Johan Wouters This file is additional code NOT INCLUDED with the Festival TTS system as distributed by CSTR/University of Edinburgh. Festival is being redistributed with permission of CSTR as part of the CSLU Toolkit. The CSLU Toolkit and this code are Copyright (c) 1999 Center for Spoken Language Understanding Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology Please see the file "license_ogi_tts.txt" for information on usage and redistribution, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. ======================================================================== DESCRIPTION ----------- This package is a drop-in module for the Festival TTS system (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival). This version of OGIgerman has been designed to work with Festival version 1.4.1, released Dec 1999. The module is distributed in three chunks: 1) OGIgerman-2.0.tar.gz -- Scheme code 2) voice_bcs-2.0.tar.gz -- female voice 3) voice_axk-2.0.tar.gz -- male voice A german text preprocessing component from the University of Stuttgart IMS is also needed: 4) festival_1.4-german_preproc.tar.gz ...as is a lexicon. Unfortunately, we have used the CELEX lexicon, distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu). You must purchase a license for this lexicon before we can send you the final tar file: 5) OGIcelex-german-2.0.tar.gz You must also get the basic OGI backend synthesis component 6) OGIresLPC-2.0.tar.gz -- residual LPC synthesizer Festival itself is available from CSTR at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html. INSTALLATION ------------ 1) Follow the instructions in the OGIresLPC README to install that synthesizer module. 2) Unpack the tar files in the directory above festival/ This will unpack the synthesizer code into your existing festival installation. 3) Add the following line to the file festival/config/config ALSO_INCLUDE += german_text 4) cd to the festival/ directory and remake festival 5) When festival is restarted, the new voice commands (voice_{bcs,axk}_diphone) should be available in Festival. DOCUMENTATION ------------- If you find this module useful for your own research projects, please cite our work in your publications. Citations of the technical reports should appear as something like this: M. W. Macon, A. Kain, A. E. Cronk, H. Meyer, K. Mueller, B. Saeuberlich, and A. W. Black, "Rapid Prototyping of a German TTS System" Tech. Rep. CSE-98-015, Department of Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, OR, September 1998. M. W. Macon, A. E. Cronk, J. Wouters, and A. Kain, "OGIresLPC: Diphone synthesiser using residual-excited linear prediction," Tech. Rep. CSE-97-007, Department of Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, OR, September 1997. These reports can be downloaded from our website. LICENSE ------- This module and accompanying data are freely available for non-commercial use only. * Commercial rights to the OGIgerman module [NOT any other part of Festival or OGIresLPC] are owned by the Fonix Corporation, which funded the project: www.fonix.com. Contact them for licensing arrangements. * The CELEX lexicon is licensed by LDC for non-commercial and commercial use. If you are a member of LDC, contact us to get the Festival-format lexicon. * The Stuttgart text preprocessing can be licensed by contacting Gregor Moehler . * OGIresLPC is covered under the same licensing agreement as the CSLU Toolkit. Please see the file "license_ogi_tts.txt" for information on usage and redistribution, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. BUGS and IMPROVEMENTS --------------------- Please contact us via email if you find bugs or have suggestions for improvements. (see email addresses above)