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8khz British English male voice for the festival speech synthesis system.
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This voice provides a British English male voice using a residual
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excited LPC diphone synthesis method. It uses the CMU Lexicon
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pronunciations. Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically
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trained model using part of speech and local distribution of breaks.
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Intonation is provided by a CART tree predicting ToBI accents and
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an F0 contour generated from a model trained from natural speech.
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The duration model is also trained from data using a CART tree.
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This voice can be activated via (voice_rab_diphone)
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