dreamk73
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7 years ago You need a linguistic frontend to process the text to get relevant linguistic features for Merlin. You can start with a very simple set of features defined in the question file and see how it goes from there. Typically if you start from scratch, I would see if there is any French voice available for Festival and use that. At the very least you need information about each phoneme, accents, phrase boundaries, and counters for how many phonemes there are in the syllable, how many syllables in the phrase, etc (counting both forward and backward).
If you can't find it, I would write a script from scratch using the input transcriptions and having a small number of function words which never receive an accent and use commas in the sentences to denote phrase boundaries.
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Jackiexiao
chazo1994
ecooper7
Hi, I want to use Merlin with French langage. Can you guide me throught the process of creating a new langage (and voice).This will be helpfull for people who want to participate in Merlin developpement. I have a corpus of wav files with their text transcription. What does Merlin need as data (apart from alignment files and audio files). What are the tools needed to do the linguistic and lexical analysis of the text files and what do they generate. Is there any lexical or linguistic features that needs to be developed for French Langage? Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance for your help.