Italian MBROLA for FESTIVAL download   

A new male and female Italian database, developed at ISTC-SPFD CNR and ITC-irst respectively, for RE-LPC Festival and OGI RE-LPC for Festival, has been converted also in an MBROLA Diphone data-base  format by TCTS Lab and it is available for download under MBROLA license agreement at: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/dba/it3/ with the name it3-010304.zip and it4-010731.zip  

In order to use this MBROLA voice you have to download the MBROLA tools at http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/mbrolatools.html with the name mbrolatools311.exe

Moreover, Festival modules, specifically created for MBROLA synthesizer, have been adapted to Italian by ISTC-SPFD CNR&ITC-irst. Various scripts for automatic segmentation, diphone extraction and MBROLA format adaptation have been developed with the function of making faster the creation of a new voice. Besides MBROLA tools, in fact, the new Italian MBROLA database can be utilized within Festival after the installation of new Italian-specific scripts and modules:

Italian - MBROLA  for FESTIVAL: It comprises the following files:

Licence - GNU - GPL
Italian Scheme code - Scheme/Tcl code for Italian voices (common to all voices)
IFD-Lexicon - Festival-format Italian lexicon compiled by ISTC-SPFD CNR&ITC-irst

Note that IFD-lexicon (lex.out) for Italian voices is based on ISTC-SPFD CNR&ITC-irst proprietary lexicon and  is free only for non-commercial use. 

It comprises also the following FESTIVAL specific modules for the Italian MBROLA new male/female voices:

pc_mbrola ISTC-SPFD CNR modules for Italian male MBROLA voice for FESTIVAL (by ISTC-SPFD CNR)
lp_mbrola  ITC-irst  modules for Italian female MBROLA voice for FESTIVAL (by ITC-irst )
 

INSTALLATION
Besides MBROLA tools (mbrolatools311.exe) in  order to install the IFD MBROLA for Festival package you must first install the IFD-Italian Scheme code and IFD-Lexicon (lex.out) over the official FESTIVAL package and at least one of the ISTC-SPFD CNT/ITC-irst  modules for Italian male/female MBROLA voices for FESTIVAL (pc_mbrola, pc_mbrola, lp_mbrola, lp_mbrola)

for more information and INTSALLATION instructions see the FULL INSTALLATION page!

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