voice-bits3-hsmm

A male German hidden semi-Markov model voice, built from voice recordings provided by the BITS project at the Bavarian Archive of Speech Signals

Prerequisites

You will need to have Java installed. On OSX with Homebrew, do

$ brew cask install java

as needed.

On Debian-based Linux (including Ubuntu), do

$ sudo apt-get install default-jdk

accordingly.

Building the voice

To assemble, test, and package the voice for another MaryTTS installation, do

$ ./gradlew build

The packaged files will be placed under build/distributions. Copy the zip file and xml descriptor into your MaryTTS installation's download directory, then run the marytts-component-installer to install the voice.

Running the voice

To build the voice and run it in an ad-hoc MaryTTS server, do

$ ./gradlew run

Then, go to http://localhost:59125.