ProSynth Project Distribution
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ProSynth was a project funded by the UK Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council from 1996 to 2001.

This FTP site contains publicly-available resources developed
on that project.

You are welcome to use these resources for any purpose, but 
please acknowledge their source.

The Prosynth Investigators were

	Sarah Hawkins (University of Cambridge) 
	Jill House (University College London) 
	Mark Huckvale (University College London) 
	John Local (University of York) 
	Richard Ogden (University of York) 

aided by:
	Sebastian Heid (University of Cambridge)
	Paul Carter (University of York)
	Jana Dankovicova (University College London)
	Alex Fang (University College London)
	Rachel Knight (University College London & 
			University of Cambridge)
	Mark Wainwright (University of Cambridge)

The aims of the Prosynth project were described in:
Ogden, R., Hawkins, S., House, J., Huckvale, M., Local, J., 
Carter, P., Dankovicova, J., Heid, S. (2000). ProSynth: an 
integrated prosodic approach to device-independent natural-
sounding speech synthesis. Computer Speech and Language, 14, 
177-210. 

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Prosynth Sentence Database

File:	prosynth_yyyymmdd.tar.gz

Contains 472 annotated sentences exploring rhythmic patterns
and segmental content for the modelling of prosody.  Files
contain speech signal, laryngograph signal, fundamental frequency,
formant frequencies, aligned phonological structure.

Enquiries to Mark Huckvale (M.Huckvale@ucl.ac.uk)

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Prosynth2 Windows Application

File:	prosynth2dd.exe

Is a windows compatible demonstration of ProSynth all-prosodic
speech synthesis.  This is a beta release version for test
purposes.

This application requires that Internet Explorer is also
installed.

Enquiries to Mark Huckvale (M.Huckvale@ucl.ac.uk)

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Prosynth XML Tools

File:	xmltools_src_yyyymmdd.tar.gz
File:	xmltools_bin_solaris_yyyymmdd.tar.gz

These are the sources and some binaries for the utterance
processing tools developed on the project.  This includes
all the UTT* tools for processing XML representations
and the ProXML script language interpreter PRX.

Enquiries to Mark Huckvale (M.Huckvale@ucl.ac.uk)

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PROCSY Tool

File:	procsy_yyyymmdd.tar.gz

PROCSY is the ProSynth copy synthesis tool developed at
Cambridge University by Sarah Hawkins, Sebastian Heid and
Mark Wainwright.  This tool converts XML represented
recordings into .HL files compatible with the sensimetrics
HLSyn quasi-articulatory formant synthesizer (see
http://www.sens.com/)

This distribution also includes shell scripts for building
the input XML files from simple recordings using the Prosynth
XML tools (see above).

Enquiries to Sarah Hawkins (sh110@cam.ac.uk)

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HLFiles corpus

File:	hlfiles_yyyymmdd.tar.gz

HLFiles is just the output from PROCSY run on each of the
files in the ProSYnth Corpus.  

Enquiries to Sarah Hawkins (sh110@cam.ac.uk)

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Mark Huckvale
December 2001