voice-cmu-slt

A female US English unit selection voice for MaryTTS built from recordings provided by CMU

Prerequisites

You will need to have Java, SoX, and the Edinburgh Speech Tools installed. On OSX with Homebrew, do

$ brew cask install java
$ brew install sox speech-tools

as needed.

On Debian-based Linux (including Ubuntu), do

$ sudo apt-get install default-jdk sox speech-tools

accordingly.

Initializing the build

Do

$ ./gradlew legacyInit

Building the voice

To assemble, test, and package the voice for another MaryTTS installation, do

$ ./gradlew build

The packaged files will be placed under build/distributions. Copy the zip file and xml descriptor into your MaryTTS installation's download directory, then run the marytts-component-installer to install the voice.

Running the voice

To build the voice and run it in an ad-hoc MaryTTS server, do

$ ./gradlew run

Then, go to http://localhost:59125.