PHOSYNTH
NAME
phosynth - formant synthesis by rule from MBROLA format control file
SYNOPSIS
phosynth
(-I) (-l|-s) (-m file.pho) (out.sfs)
DESCRIPTION
phosynth
is a program to perform synthesis by rule for a formant synthesizer.
It takes as input a phonetic transcription and a fundamental frequency
contour and produces synthesizer control data. 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 synthesizer, or to a listing file or
to an SFS file.
The formant parameter tracks are produced using the Holmes, Mattingly
and Shearme algorithm (1964) and target values are adapted from the JSRU
text to speech system.
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.
-l
Send synthesizer control data to standard output in format
compatible with sylist(SFS1) and syload(SFS1).
-s
Save synthesizer control data to SFS file.
-m mbrola.pho
Take input from MBROLA format .PHO file.
VERSION/AUTHOR
1.1
Mark Huckvale
SEE ALSO
repros
BUGS
Sat Jun 29 11:18:02 2002