festvox-rab-diphone Subpackage of festival

British English male speaker ("RAB") for Festival. This voice provides a British English male voice using a residual excited LPC diphone synthesis method. It uses the CMU Lexicon for pronunciations. Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically trained model using part of speech and local distribution of breaks. Intonation is provided by a CART tree predicting ToBI accents and an F0 contour generated from a model trained from natural speech. The duration model is also trained from data using a CART tree.

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