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FFFFFFF RRRRR 55555555
F R R 5
F R R 5
F R R 5
FFFFF RRRR 555555
F R R 5
F R R 5
F R R 5 5
F R R 555555 release 2.060
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Table of Contents
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1.0 A brief description of the FR5 database
2.0 Distribution
3.0 Installation, and tests
4.0 Author
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1.0 A brief description of FR5
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FR5 2.060 release is a French diphone database provided in the context
of the MBROLA project see: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis
It provides a French male voice to be used with the MBROLA
program. The central pitch of the database is 120Hz, and the nominal
sampling rate is 16000Hz.
Input files use the SAMPA (SAM Phonetic Alphabet) notation as
recommended by the EEC-SAM Project. Here is a list of the French
phonemes it accounts for, with examples.
(NB : the table below is encoded as ASCII ISO8859-1; use an ASCII
editor to see it correctly )
SAMPA EXAMPLES
i idiot, ami
e ému, été
E perdu, maison
a alarme, patte
O obstacle, corps
o auditeur, beau
u coupable, loup
y punir, élu
2 creuser, deux
9 malheureux, peur
@ petite, fortement
e~ peinture, matin
a~ vantardise, temps
o~ rondeur, bon
9~ lundi, brun
j piétiner, choyer
w quoi, fouine
H huile, nuage
p patte, repas, cap
t tête, net
k carte, écaille, bec
b bête, habile, robe
d dire, rondeur, chaud
g gauche, égal, bague
f feu, affiche, chef
s soeur, assez, passe
S chanter, machine, poche
v vent, inventer, rêve
z zéro, raisonner, rose
Z jardin, manger, piège
l long, élire, bal
R rond, charriot, sentir
m madame, aimer, pomme
n nous, punir, bonne
N ping, pong
_ (silence marker)
Limitations:
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Notice that SAMPA 'h' (halte,hop) is not defined.
SAMPA 'J' (agneau, peigner, règne) should be entered as two separate
phonemes : 'n' and 'j'.
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2.0 Distribution
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This distribution of mbrola contains the following files :
fr5 : the database itself
fr5.txt : This file
license.txt: must read before using the database
and a number of example .PHO files :
bonjour.pho greetings
carte.pho a simple sentence
Additional languages and voices, as well as other example command
files, are or will be available in the context of the MBROLA
project. Please consult the MBROLA project homepage :
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis
Registered users will automatically be notified of the availability of
new databases. To freely register, simply send an email to
mbrola-interest-request@tcts.fpms.ac.be with the word 'subscribe' in
the message title.
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3.0 Installation and Tests
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If you have not copied the MBROLA software yet, please consult the
MBROLA project homepage and get it.
Copy fr5.zip into the mbrola directory and unzip it :
unzip fr5.zip (or pkunzip on PC/DOS)
(don't forget to delete the .zip file when this is done)
On PC-Windows register fr5 with the Wizard in the control panel.
On unix platforms, try:
mbrola fr5 TEST/bonjour.pho bonjour.wav
to create a sound file for the word 'bonjour'. In this example the
audio file follows the RIFF Wav format. But depending on the extension
bonjour.au, bonjour.aif, or bonjour.raw you can obtain other file
formats. Listen to it with your favorite sound editor, and try the
other command files (*.pho) to have a better idea of the quality of
speech you can synthesize with the MBROLA technique.
On Unix systems you can pipe the audio ouput to the sound player as on
a HP : mbrola fr5 TEST/bonjour.pho - | splayer -srate 16000 -l16
Also refer to the readme.txt file provided with the mbrola software
for using it.
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4.0 Author
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This database was recorded by Fabrice Malfrère.
For questions concerning the database itself contact
malfrere@tcts.fpms.ac.be
Contact mbrola@tcts.fpms.ac.be, for general information, questions on
the installation of software and databases.
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