MBRSYNTH

NAME

mbrsynth - MBROLA diphone synthesis from MBROLA format control file

SYNOPSIS

mbrsynth (-I) (-i item) (-m file.pho) (-d diphonedb) (-s) (out.sfs)

DESCRIPTION

mbrsynth is a program to perform diphone synthesis using the MBROLA diphone system. MBROLA software from http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis needs be installed for this program to work. You also need at least one diphone database from the same source.

The program takes as input a phonetic transcription and a fundamental frequency contour and produces an audio signal. The input can come from an input AN item and FX item or from a .PHO file as used by the MBROLA diphone synthesis system. Output is direct to the audio output, or to an SFS file.

Here is an example for you to try:

_ 50
t 95 0 150
e 133 0 150 99 110
s 150
t 135 0 110
_ 50

OPTIONS

-I Identify program name and version number.

-i item Select input AN and FX items.

-m mbrola.pho Take input from MBROLA format .PHO file.

-d diphonedb Select the name of the diphone database to use for synthesis.

VERSION/AUTHOR

1.0 Mark Huckvale

SEE ALSO

phosynth, repros

BUGS


Sat Jun 29 11:18:02 2002