festvox-jmk-arctic-hts Subpackage of festival

US English male speaker ("JMK") voice for Festival. JMK is a native Canadian English speaker, but the voice uses the US English front end. This is a HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS) voice from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, trained using the CMU ARCTIC database. This voice is based on 1138 utterances spoken by a US English male speaker. The speaker is experienced in building synthetic voices. This was recorded at 16bit 32KHz, in a sound proof room, in stereo, one channel was the waveform, the other EGG. The database was automatically labelled using CMU Sphinx using the FestVox labelling scripts. No hand correction has been made.

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