11-752: week 1 exercises hints

• You will need: (from http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/

  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/speech_tools-1.2.96-beta.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festival-1.96-beta.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festlex_CMU.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_cmu_us_bdl_arctic_hts.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_cmu_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts.tar.gz
  http://www.festvox.org/packed/festival/latest/festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz
  http://festvox.org/festvox//festvox-2.1-release.tar.gz
  

  You will need a Unix machine *with* working audio, a MAC (OSX) or Windows with cygwin installed.

  To install assuming all tar files are in packed/

  for i in packed/*.tar.gz
  do
     tar zxvf $i
  done
  cd speech_tools/
  ./configure
  make
  cd ../festival/
  ./configure
  make
  cd ../festvox/
  ./configure
  make
  

  To make it speak

  ./festival/bin/festival
  ...
  festival> (SayText "Hello world")
  ...
  festival> (quit)
  

• 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
• use $SPPPDIR/src/festtut/examples/books/alice29.txt an estimate of the time is fine.