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Klatt: A Klatt-style speech synthesizer implemented in C.
areas/speech/systems/klatt/
This directory contains a C implementation of a Klatt-style cascade
parallel formant speech synthesizer. The software is an attempt to
implement, and remain faithful to, Dennis Klatt's original design of
software synthesizer, as described in the original JASA article.
The aim of the software is to convert frames of audio parameters into
chunks of speech waveform. Forty parameters are specified per frame,
including formant frequencies, amplitudes and bandwidths, voicing,
frication and so on. Each frame of parameters usually represents 10ms
of output speech. Two (simple!) example parameter files are
supplied with the package.
Origin:
ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk:/pub/dist/synth/sources/
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/pub/comp.speech/sources/
as the file klatt.3.0.4.tar.Z
Version: 3.0.4 (9-MAY-94)
Requires: C
Copying: GNU GPL v1
CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1
Author(s): Jon Iles
Nick Ing-Simmons
Contact: Jon Iles
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2TT. UK
Tel: +44(0)21-414-3736
Keywords:
Authors!Iles, Authors!Ing-Simmons, C!Code, Formant Synthesis,
GNU GPL, Klatt, Speech Synthesis
References:
Dennis H. Klatt, "Software for a cascade/parallel formant synthesizer",
Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 67(3):971-995, March 1980.
D.H. Klatt and L.C. Klatt, "Analysis, synthesis and perception of
voice quality variations among female and male talkers", Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America, 87(2):820-857, February 1990.
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