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MBROLA based American English male voice for the festival speech
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synthesis system.
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This voice provides a American English male voice using the MBROLA
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synthesis method. It uses a modified CMU lexicon for pronunciations.
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Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically trained model using
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part of speech and local distribution of breaks. Intonation is
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provided by a CART tree predicting ToBI accents and an F0 contour
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generated from a model trained from natural speech. The duration
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model is also trained from data using a CART tree.
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The quality of this voice is not as high as us1 and us2
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This voice can be activated via (voice_us3_mbrola)
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