11-752: week 1 exercises hints

• Installing Festival and the Festvox tools: Windows you must install the cygwin environment for this to work. Festival can work with Visual Studio, but the FestVox tools do not, so install the full cygwin environment first. Linux and OSX should work out of the box.

  Download the source, voices and lexicons from: http://festvox.org/11752/packed/

  Follow the commands for unpacking and compilation in the script http://festvox.org/11752/packed/build_them . You wish to go through these commands one by one rather than running the script in case there are errors on the way.

  Note these tools are necessary in order to do most of the homeworks
• to test pronunciations, use

  (SayText "My name is John Smith.")
  

  to set new entries in the lexicon use

  (lex.add.entry
     '("edinburgh" n (((eh d) 1) ((ah n) 0) ((b ax ) 0) ((r ow) 0))))
  

  To find out phone names use

  (lex.lookup "word" nil)
  

  on similarly pronounced words
• See Festival manual for instructions for installation\\ http://www.festvox.org/docs/manual-1.4.3/festival_toc.html
• use alice.txt an estimate of the time is fine.