CMU ARCTIC SLT This directory contains a recording of the phonetically balanced US English CMU ARCTIC database by SLT, a female US English speaker. See http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/ for details on the database coverage and other recordings of this dataset The format follows the Festvox (http://www.festvox.org) directory structure. The directory structure is bin/ basic scripts for building prompts, labelling feature files etc.s cep/ Ceptrum files dynamically created in phone autolabellingl dic/ Final diphone dictionary final (used at run-time) etc/ prompt file, and some labelling templates festival/ Not used in diphone bases festvox/ scheme voice definition files (used at run-time) group/ extracted diphones into signle group file for distribution lab/ autolabelled phone labels lar/ recorded EGG signal files (not used in this example) lpc/ LPC parameters plus residuals, (used at run-time for nongrouped version) mcep/ MFCC (Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients) not used in diphone databases pm/ Pitchmark files as extract from waveforms (or EGG signal) pm_lab/ derived pitchmark labeled files from pm/ enabling emulabel (and others display programs) to show the pitchmarks and waveform files. prompt-cep/ cepstrum files for prompt-lab/ label files for synthesized prompts prompt-wav/ waveforms of synthesized prompts prompt-utts/ utterances of synthesized prompts wav/ recorded spoken nonsense words (in Microsoft riff (wav) format). If you are using Xwaves you should convert these to NIST format