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release 4 - 17 September 1999
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HN1 - Hanmal (Korean language) male voice for the MBROLA synthesizer
Created by : Prof. KIM, Kyongsok/GIM, Gyeongseog
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Table of Contents
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1.0 Description of the HN1 diphone database
2.0 Installation and tests
3.0 Contacts
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1.0 Description of the HN1 diphone database
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This database consist of 1909 diphones. The name for Hanmal diphone
database is HN. Since, both South and North Koreas use the same
language, it does not seem proper to use as a database name KR, which
stands for South Korea only.
Therefore, we will use HN, abbreviated from Hanmal (Korean
Language). 'Han' stands for Korean and 'Mal' for Language.
Note: According to ISO 3166-1, KR and KOR are for South Korea
(Republic of Korea) and KP and PRK are for North Korea (Democratic
People's Republic of Korea).
For the same reason as in 4), we will use "Hanbando" (Korean
Penninsula) flag for HN diphone database. The flag was first used at
some international table tennis game in 1991 to represent a
South-and-North-Koreas-unified team. The flag is also being used at
ships which carries South Korean tourists going to Geumgangsan in
North Korea. The flag shows the whole Korean Penninsula, i.e., both
South and North Koreas.
Software used for recording, labeling, etc: speech filing system (sfs)
developed at Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University
College London, London, U.K:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs.html
SAMPA Description of Hanmal Romanization Symbols (1999.07.29, 10:00 KST)
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XSAMPA (Extended SAMPA) has been use to encode the database. Thanks to
the mbrola renaming mechanism, one can use initialization files (or
Mbroli renaming/mapping tables) to use an alternative phoneme set
issued from romanization of Hangeul - MOE 1959 (Korean Ministry of
Eduction, 1959 edition), which is nearly the same as ISO TR 11941:
Transliteration of Korean script (Method II in case of Consonantal
lettres.)
Consonants (Onset Position)
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Roman SAMPA Description
101. g k velar lax plosive, voiceless
102. gg k_> non-pulmonic velar ejective
103. n n alveolar nasal
104. d t alveolar lax plosive, voiceless
105. dd t_> non-pulmonic alveolar ejective
106. r 4 alveolar tap
107. m m bilabial nasal
108. b p bilabial lax plosive, voiceless
109. bb p_> non-pulmonic bilabial ejective
110. s s alveolar fricative, voicelss
111. ss s_> non-pulmonic alveolar fricative ejective
112. ngo ?? ???
113. j ts\ alveolo-palatal lax affricate, voiceless
114. jj ts\_> non-pulmonic postalveolar affricate ejective
115. ch ts\_h postalveolar aspirated affricate, voiceless
116. k k_h velar aspirated plosive, voiceless
117. t t_h alveolar aspirated plosive, voiceless
118. p p_h bilabial aspirated plosive, voiceless
119. h h glottal fricative, voiceless
120. gv g velar plosive, voiced
121. dv d alveolar plosive, voiced
122. bv b bilabial plosive, voiced
123. jv dz\ postalveolar affricate, voiced
124. sh s\ alveolo-palatal fricative, voiceless
125. lo l alveolar lateral approximant
Consonants (Coda Position)
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Roman SAMPA Description
301. gc k_} velar plosive, voiceless
304. nc n_} alveolar nasal, no audible release
307. dc t_} alveolar plosive, voiceless
308. l l_} alveolar lateral approximant, no audible release
316. mc m_} bilabial nasal, no audible release
317. bc p_} bilabial plosive, voiceless
321. ng N velar nasal
Vowels
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Roman SAMPA Description
201. a a open front unrounded, Cardinal 4
202. ae E open-mid front unrounded, Cardinal 3
203. ya ja palatal approximant + open front unrounded
204. yae jE palatal approximant + open-mid front unrounded
205. eo V open-mid back unrounded
206. e e close-mid front unrounded, Cardinal 2
207. yeo jV palatal approximant + open-mid back unrounded
208. ye je palatal approximant + close-mid front unrounded
209. o o close-mid back rounded, Cardinal 7
210. wa wa voiced labial-velar approximant + open front unrounded
211. wae wE voiced labial-velar approximant + open-mid front unrounded
212. oe 2 close-mid front rounded
213. yo jo palatal approximant + close-mid back rounded
214. u u close back rounded, Cardinal 8
215. weo wV voiced labial-velar approximant + open-mid back unrounded
216. we we voiced labial-velar approximant + close-mid front unrounded
217. wi wi voiced labial-velar approximant + close front unrounded
218. yu ju palatal approximant + close back rounded
219. eu M close back unrounded
220. eui M\i velar approximant + close front unrounded
221. i i close front unrounded, Cardinal 1
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2.0 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:
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis
Copy hn1.zip into the mbrola directory and unzip it :
unzip hn1.zip (or pkunzip on PC/DOS)
On Unix, try:
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mbrola hn1/hn1 hn1/TEST/s131.pho test.wav
If you want to use the romanize phoneme set:
mbrola -I hn1/TEST/hn1roman hn1/hn1 hn1/TEST/s131roman.pho test.wav
It creates a short sound file, RIFF Wave format in this example. But
depending on the extension test.au, test.aif, or test.raw other file
formats can be obtained. 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 that can be synthesized with MBROLA and the HN1
database.
On Unix systems you can pipe the audio ouput to the sound player as
on a HP : mbrola hn1 TEST/s132.pho - | splayer -srate 16000 -l16
Also refer to the readme.txt file provided with the mbrola software
for using it.
On Windows:
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Once hn1 has been registered in Mbroli, simply double click on
TEST/s131.pho
If you want to use renamed phoneme set, you must initialize Mbroli's
diphone renaming/mapping with the file hn1roman.mbroli
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3.0 Contacts:
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1) Prof. GIM, Gyeongseog/KIM, Kyongsok.
Internet: gimgs@asadal.cs.pusan.ac.kr
http://asadal.cs.pusan.ac.kr/hangeul/ (Hangeul/Hanmal info.)
http://asadal.cs.pusan.ac.kr/ (General info.)
Phone: +82-51-510-2292 (office) or +82-51-947-6581 (home)
Fax: +82-51-515-2208
Address: Division of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering, Busan National University
BUSAN 609-735, South KOREA
2) Mr. Chung, Hyunsong.
Internet: hchung@pitch.phon.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/hchung/home.htm
Address: Department of Phonetics and Linguistics,
University College London, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.
TEL: +44 171 504 5026, FAX: +44 171 383 0752
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