<HTML> <HEAD> <!-- This HTML file has been created by texi2html 1.52 from ../festival.texi on 2 August 2001 --> <TITLE>Festival Speech Synthesis System - Table of Contents</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#ffffff"> <H1>The Festival Speech Synthesis System</H1> <H2>System documentation</H2> <H2>Edition 1.4, for Festival Version 1.4.2</H2> <H2>25th July 2001</H2> <ADDRESS>by Alan W Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley.</ADDRESS> <P> <P><HR><P> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC1" HREF="festival_1.html#SEC1">1 Abstract</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC2" HREF="festival_2.html#SEC2">2 Copying</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC3" HREF="festival_3.html#SEC3">3 Acknowledgements</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC4" HREF="festival_3.html#SEC4">3.1 SIOD</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC5" HREF="festival_3.html#SEC5">3.2 editline</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC6" HREF="festival_3.html#SEC6">3.3 Edinburgh Speech Tools Library</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC7" HREF="festival_3.html#SEC7">3.4 Others</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC8" HREF="festival_4.html#SEC8">4 What is new</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC9" HREF="festival_5.html#SEC9">5 Overview</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC10" HREF="festival_5.html#SEC10">5.1 Philosophy</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC11" HREF="festival_5.html#SEC11">5.2 Future</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC12" HREF="festival_6.html#SEC12">6 Installation</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC13" HREF="festival_6.html#SEC13">6.1 Requirements</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC14" HREF="festival_6.html#SEC14">6.2 Configuration</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC15" HREF="festival_6.html#SEC15">6.3 Site initialization</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC16" HREF="festival_6.html#SEC16">6.4 Checking an installation</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC17" HREF="festival_6.html#SEC17">6.5 Y2K</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC18" HREF="festival_7.html#SEC18">7 Quick start</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC19" HREF="festival_7.html#SEC19">7.1 Basic command line options</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC20" HREF="festival_7.html#SEC20">7.2 Sample command driven session</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC21" HREF="festival_7.html#SEC21">7.3 Getting some help</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC22" HREF="festival_8.html#SEC22">8 Scheme</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC23" HREF="festival_8.html#SEC23">8.1 Scheme references</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC24" HREF="festival_8.html#SEC24">8.2 Scheme fundamentals</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC25" HREF="festival_8.html#SEC25">8.3 Scheme Festival specifics</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC26" HREF="festival_8.html#SEC26">8.4 Scheme I/O</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC27" HREF="festival_9.html#SEC27">9 TTS</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC28" HREF="festival_9.html#SEC28">9.1 Utterance chunking</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC29" HREF="festival_9.html#SEC29">9.2 Text modes</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC30" HREF="festival_9.html#SEC30">9.3 Example text mode</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC31" HREF="festival_10.html#SEC31">10 XML/SGML mark-up</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC32" HREF="festival_10.html#SEC32">10.1 Sable example</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC33" HREF="festival_10.html#SEC33">10.2 Supported Sable tags</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC34" HREF="festival_10.html#SEC34">10.3 Adding Sable tags</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC35" HREF="festival_10.html#SEC35">10.4 XML/SGML requirements</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC36" HREF="festival_10.html#SEC36">10.5 Using Sable</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC37" HREF="festival_11.html#SEC37">11 Emacs interface</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC38" HREF="festival_12.html#SEC38">12 Phonesets</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC39" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC39">13 Lexicons</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC40" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC40">13.1 Lexical entries</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC41" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC41">13.2 Defining lexicons</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC42" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC42">13.3 Lookup process</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC43" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC43">13.4 Letter to sound rules</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC44" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC44">13.5 Building letter to sound rules</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC45" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC45">13.6 Lexicon requirements</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC46" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC46">13.7 Available lexicons</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC47" HREF="festival_13.html#SEC47">13.8 Post-lexical rules</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC48" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC48">14 Utterances</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC49" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC49">14.1 Utterance structure</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC50" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC50">14.2 Utterance types</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC51" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC51">14.3 Example utterance types</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC52" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC52">14.4 Utterance modules</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC53" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC53">14.5 Accessing an utterance</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC54" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC54">14.6 Features</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC55" HREF="festival_14.html#SEC55">14.7 Utterance I/O</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC56" HREF="festival_15.html#SEC56">15 Text analysis</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC57" HREF="festival_15.html#SEC57">15.1 Tokenizing</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC58" HREF="festival_15.html#SEC58">15.2 Token to word rules</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC59" HREF="festival_15.html#SEC59">15.3 Homograph disambiguation</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC60" HREF="festival_15.html#SEC60">15.3.1 Using disambiguators</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC61" HREF="festival_15.html#SEC61">15.3.2 Building disambiguators</A> </UL> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC62" HREF="festival_16.html#SEC62">16 POS tagging</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC63" HREF="festival_17.html#SEC63">17 Phrase breaks</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC64" HREF="festival_18.html#SEC64">18 Intonation</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC65" HREF="festival_18.html#SEC65">18.1 Default intonation</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC66" HREF="festival_18.html#SEC66">18.2 Simple intonation</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC67" HREF="festival_18.html#SEC67">18.3 Tree intonation</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC68" HREF="festival_18.html#SEC68">18.4 Tilt intonation</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC69" HREF="festival_18.html#SEC69">18.5 General intonation</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC70" HREF="festival_18.html#SEC70">18.6 Using ToBI</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC71" HREF="festival_19.html#SEC71">19 Duration</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC72" HREF="festival_19.html#SEC72">19.1 Default durations</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC73" HREF="festival_19.html#SEC73">19.2 Average durations</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC74" HREF="festival_19.html#SEC74">19.3 Klatt durations</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC75" HREF="festival_19.html#SEC75">19.4 CART durations</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC76" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC76">20 UniSyn synthesizer</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC77" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC77">20.1 UniSyn database format</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC78" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC78">20.1.1 Generating pitchmarks</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC79" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC79">20.1.2 Generating LPC coefficients</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC80" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC80">20.2 Generating a diphone index</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC81" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC81">20.3 Database declaration</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC82" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC82">20.4 Making groupfiles</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC83" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC83">20.5 UniSyn module selection</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC84" HREF="festival_20.html#SEC84">20.6 Diphone selection</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC85" HREF="festival_21.html#SEC85">21 Diphone synthesizer</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC86" HREF="festival_21.html#SEC86">21.1 Diphone database format</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC87" HREF="festival_21.html#SEC87">21.2 LPC databases</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC88" HREF="festival_21.html#SEC88">21.3 Group files</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC89" HREF="festival_21.html#SEC89">21.4 Diphone_Init</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC90" HREF="festival_21.html#SEC90">21.5 Access strategies</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC91" HREF="festival_21.html#SEC91">21.6 Diphone selection</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC92" HREF="festival_22.html#SEC92">22 Other synthesis methods</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC93" HREF="festival_22.html#SEC93">22.1 LPC diphone synthesizer</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC94" HREF="festival_22.html#SEC94">22.2 MBROLA</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC95" HREF="festival_22.html#SEC95">22.3 Synthesizers in development</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC96" HREF="festival_23.html#SEC96">23 Audio output</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC97" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC97">24 Voices</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC98" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC98">24.1 Current voices</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC99" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC99">24.2 Building a new voice</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC100" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC100">24.2.1 Phoneset</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC101" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC101">24.2.2 Lexicon and LTS</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC102" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC102">24.2.3 Phrasing</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC103" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC103">24.2.4 Intonation</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC104" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC104">24.2.5 Duration</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC105" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC105">24.2.6 Waveform synthesis</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC106" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC106">24.2.7 Voice selection function</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC107" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC107">24.2.8 Last remarks</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC108" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC108">24.2.9 Resetting globals</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC109" HREF="festival_24.html#SEC109">24.3 Defining a new voice</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC110" HREF="festival_25.html#SEC110">25 Tools</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC111" HREF="festival_25.html#SEC111">25.1 Regular expressions</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC112" HREF="festival_25.html#SEC112">25.2 CART trees</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC113" HREF="festival_25.html#SEC113">25.3 Ngrams</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC114" HREF="festival_25.html#SEC114">25.4 Viterbi decoder</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC115" HREF="festival_25.html#SEC115">25.5 Linear regression</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC116" HREF="festival_26.html#SEC116">26 Building models from databases</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC117" HREF="festival_26.html#SEC117">26.1 Labelling databases</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC118" HREF="festival_26.html#SEC118">26.2 Extracting features</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC119" HREF="festival_26.html#SEC119">26.3 Building models</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC120" HREF="festival_27.html#SEC120">27 Programming</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC121" HREF="festival_27.html#SEC121">27.1 The source code</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC122" HREF="festival_27.html#SEC122">27.2 Writing a new module</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC123" HREF="festival_27.html#SEC123">27.2.1 Example 1: adding new modules</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC124" HREF="festival_27.html#SEC124">27.2.2 Example 2: accessing the utterance</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC125" HREF="festival_27.html#SEC125">27.2.3 Example 3: adding new directories</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC126" HREF="festival_27.html#SEC126">27.2.4 Example 4: adding new LISP objects</A> </UL> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC127" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC127">28 API</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC128" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC128">28.1 Scheme API</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC129" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC129">28.2 Shell API</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC130" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC130">28.3 Server/client API</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC131" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC131">28.3.1 Server access control</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC132" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC132">28.3.2 Client control</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC133" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC133">28.3.3 Server/client protocol</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC134" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC134">28.4 C/C++ API</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC135" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC135">28.5 C only API</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC136" HREF="festival_28.html#SEC136">28.6 Java and JSAPI</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC137" HREF="festival_29.html#SEC137">29 Examples</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC138" HREF="festival_29.html#SEC138">29.1 POS Example</A> </UL> <LI><A NAME="TOC139" HREF="festival_30.html#SEC139">30 Problems</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC140" HREF="festival_31.html#SEC140">31 References</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC141" HREF="festival_32.html#SEC141">32 Feature functions</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC142" HREF="festival_33.html#SEC142">33 Variable list</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC143" HREF="festival_34.html#SEC143">34 Function list</A> <LI><A NAME="TOC144" HREF="festival_35.html#SEC144">Index</A> </UL> <P><HR><P> This document was generated on 2 August 2001 using the <A HREF="http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dis/texi2html/">texi2html</A> translator version 1.52.</P> </BODY> </HTML>