Subject: Re: synthetic female speech From: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan <muralib@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:42:53 -0500------=_Part_5054_18518807.1142260973641 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hey, You could look at the festvox system: http://festvox.org/ which i think is based on Festival, http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ I know they have built female voices from the arctic database, http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/ (slt is female). It may even be one of the voice demos. Murali On 3/13/06, Katya Winnik <lulswinnik@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I decided to write here after some desperate attempts > to get a good female sound for my stimuli. I work with > newborn babies and they are shown to prefere female > voices rather then male ones. Female voices in MBROLA, > wich is used in my lab, are very poor.. > Do you know a speech synthesizer that produses an > acceptable female voice? > and has an accurate timing of phonemes? (I'm going to > run ERP experiment, so the timing should be very > precise..) > > Thank you in advance, > All the best, > Katya > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------=_Part_5054_18518807.1142260973641 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hey,<br> <br> You could look at the festvox system:<br> <br> <a href=3D"http://festvox.org/">http://festvox.org/</a><br> <br> which i think is based on Festival,<br> <br> <a href=3D"http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/">http://www.cstr.ed.= ac.uk/projects/festival/</a><br> <br> I know they have built female voices from the arctic database,<br> <br> <a href=3D"http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/">http://festvox.org/cmu_arctic/</= a><br> <br> (slt is female).<br> <br> It may even be one of the voice demos.<br> <br> Murali<br> <br> <br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 3/13/06, <b class=3D"gmail_send= ername">Katya Winnik</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:lulswinnik@xxxxxxxx">lulswi= nnik@xxxxxxxx</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style= =3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; p= adding-left: 1ex;"> Hi,<br><br>I decided to write here after some desperate attempts<br>to get = a good female sound for my stimuli. I work with<br>newborn babies &nbs= p;and they are shown to prefere female<br>voices rather then male ones. Fem= ale voices in MBROLA, <br>wich is used in my lab, are very poor..<br>Do you know a speech synthes= izer that produses an<br>acceptable female voice?<br>and has an accurate ti= ming of phonemes? (I'm going to<br>run ERP experiment, so the timing should= be very <br>precise..)<br><br>Thank you in advance,<br>All the best,<br>Katya<br><b= r><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<= br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection aroun= d<br><a href=3D"http://mail.yahoo.com"> http://mail.yahoo.com</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_5054_18518807.1142260973641--