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<h1>Setting up MBROLA for FreeTTS</h1>
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<p>The aim of the MBROLA project, initiated by the TCTS Lab of
the Faculte Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium), is to obtain a
set of speech synthesizers for as many languages as possible,
and provide them free for non-commercial applications. The
MBROLA source code is held tightly by its owners, but
fortunately they provide standalone binaries for a large
number of platforms. In addition, a large number of diphone
voice databases exist for many languages.</p>
<p><b><font color="ff0000">NOTE:</font> FreeTTS support for
MBROLA on the Windows platform has been troublesome in the
past, but appears to have been fixed by the MBROLA team.
Please refer to the
<a
href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1219083&forum_id=137669">FreeTTS Forum</a>
for more information.</b></p>
<p>Three US English voices exist, named us1 (female), us2
(male) and us3 (male). Thanks to the work of Marc Schroder,
text-to-speech Researcher in the Language Technology Lab at
DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany, FreeTTS can use these voices.</p>
<h3>Download and Install MBROLA Binaries</h3>
<p>The MBROLA binaries and voice databases can be downloaded free
for non-commercial, non-military use at:</p>
<ul>
<p><a href="http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html">
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html</a></p>
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<p>Decide on a base directory to put both MBROLA binary
and MBROLA voice databases. Let's assume this is
/home/jim/mbrola. Download and install the MBROLA binaries
for your platform into this directory. Also download and
install the us1, us2, and us3 binaries into this directory.
When you are done, you should have a directory that looks
something like the following (sample taken from Mac OS X):</p>
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bash-2.05a$ ls -l /home/jim/mbrola
total 184
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jim staff 31686 Mar 6 2001 License.txt
drwxrwxrwx 3 jim staff 102 Mar 5 2001 MbroliX.app
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jim staff 1318 Mar 5 2001 ReadMe.rtf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jim staff 1044 Mar 5 2001 ReadMe.txt
drwxr-xr-x 9 jim staff 306 Aug 28 17:04 distrib
-rw-r--r-- 1 jim staff 0 Aug 28 17:50 foo.raw
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jim staff 17 Aug 28 17:50 mbrola -> mbrola-darwin-ppc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jim staff 47616 May 6 2002 mbrola-darwin-ppc
drwxr-xr-x 8 jim staff 272 Aug 19 16:11 us1
drwxr-xr-x 7 jim staff 238 Aug 19 16:11 us2
drwxr-xr-x 7 jim staff 238 Aug 19 16:11 us3
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<p>Note that FreeTTS expects the MBROLA binary to be named "mbrola."
As a result, you may need to rename the mbrola binary or create a
symbolic link to it. For example, on Mac OS X, the mbrola binary
is named "mbrola-darwin-ppc." Creating a symbolic link named "mbrola"
that points to "mbrola-darwin-ppc" (as shown above) will allow FreeTTS
to find the mbrola binary.
<p>Also make sure that both the link "mbrola" and the mbrola binary
are executable. Using this example:
<ul>
<p><code>chmod a+x mbrola mbrola-darwin-ppc</code>
</ul>
<h3>Enable FreeTTS Support for MBROLA</h3>
<p>To enable FreeTTS support for MBROLA, merely copy
mbrola/mbrola.jar to lib/mbrola.jar. Then, whenever you run
any FreeTTS application, specify the "mbrola.base" directory
as a system property:</p>
<ul>
<p><code>java -Dmbrola.base=/home/jim/mbrola -jar
bin/FreeTTSHelloWorld.jar mbrola_us1</code></p>
</ul>
<h3>Determining Available MBROLA Voices</h3>
<p>To get the names of the available MBROLA voices, run the
mbrola.jar file:</p>
<ul>
<pre>
java -Dmbrola.base=/home/jim/mbrola -jar lib/mbrola.jar
VoiceDirectory 'de.dfki.lt.freetts.en.us.MbrolaVoiceDirectory'
Name: mbrola_us1
Description: MBROLA Voice us1
Organization: mbrola
Domain: general
Locale: en_US
Style: standard
Gender: FEMALE
Age: YOUNGER_ADULT
Pitch: 180.0
Pitch Range: 22.0
Pitch Shift: 1.0
Rate: 150.0
Volume: 1.0
Name: mbrola_us2
Description: MBROLA Voice us2
Organization: mbrola
Domain: general
Locale: en_US
Style: standard
Gender: MALE
Age: YOUNGER_ADULT
Pitch: 115.0
Pitch Range: 12.0
Pitch Shift: 1.0
Rate: 150.0
Volume: 1.0
Name: mbrola_us3
Description: MBROLA Voice us3
Organization: mbrola
Domain: general
Locale: en_US
Style: standard
Gender: MALE
Age: YOUNGER_ADULT
Pitch: 125.0
Pitch Range: 12.0
Pitch Shift: 1.0
Rate: 150.0
Volume: 1.0
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