Speakers at ITL - CHATR Version 0.8

The following speakers are defined in the ITL installation of chatr-0.8.

English - Female V0.8

speaker_sally: British English female speaker (Sally) based on the CSTR 200 phonetically balanced sentences. `mrpa' phoneset, 8,989 units.
speaker_sab5000: British English female speaker (Sally) based on the CSTR 5000 isolated words. `mrpa' phoneset, 33,230 units.
speaker_sab600: British English female speaker (Sally) based on TIMIT 450 phonetically balanced sentences. `BEEP' phoneset, 13,713 units.
speaker_f2b: American English female speaker based on 123 news stories from the Boston University FM Radio corpus. `Radio2' phoneset, 41,241 units.
speaker_f3a: American English female speaker based on 312 news stories from the Boston University FM Radio corpus. `Radio2' phoneset, 96,612 units.
speaker_mlp350: American English female speaker based on 322 utterances, including some phonetically balanced, plus conference registration dialogue. `Radio2' phoneset, 14,195 units. The speaker is bilingual. fmp559 is the Japanese version.

speaker_gsw: British English male speaker (Gordon) based on the CSTR 200 phonetically balanced sentences. `mrpa' phoneset, 8,702 units.
speaker_wnc600: British English male speaker (Nick) based on the CSTR 200 phonetically balanced sentences plus the TIMIT 450 phonetically balanced sentences. `BEEP' phoneset, 24,925 units.
speaker_m1b: American English male speaker based on 157 news stories from the Boston University FM Radio corpus. `Radio2' phoneset, 45,054 units.

speaker_FKN: Japanese female speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,744 units.
speaker_FKS: Japanese female speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,487 units.
speaker_FTK: Japanese female speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,355 units.
speaker_FYM: Japanese female speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,422 units.
speaker_fmp559: Japanese female speaker based on stories and conference registration dialogues. Nuuph phoneset, 32,259 units. The speaker is bilingual. mlp350 is the English version.

speaker_MHT: Japanese male speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,789 units.
speaker_MHN: Japanese male speaker (Norio Higuchi) based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 26,648 units.
speaker_MHO: Japanese male speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,802 units.
speaker_MMY: Japanese male speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,623 units.
speaker_MSH: Japanese male speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,912 units.
speaker_MTK: Japanese male speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 29,235 units.
speaker_MYI: Japanese male speaker based on ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 28,432 units.
speaker_mnc250: Japanese male speaker (Nick Campbell) based on half of ATR 503 sentence database. Nuuph phoneset, 14,010 units.

speaker_mcu300: Korean male speaker based on stories. 29,239 units. This does not give a full tts system, only the database selection.
speaker_RTD: German male speaker (Klaus Kohler) based on stories from the Kiel University German database. This does not give a full tts system only the database selection.