The Neural Network (NN) based Speech Synthesis System
This repository contains the Neural Network (NN) based Speech Synthesis System
developed at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of
Edinburgh.
To build the toolkit: see ./INSTALL
. These instructions are valid for UNIX
systems including various flavors of Linux;
To run the example system builds, see egs/README.txt
Getting started with Merlin
As a first demo, please follow the scripts in egs/slt_arctic
Now, you can also follow Josh Meyer's blog post for detailed instructions
on how to install Merlin and build SLT demo voice.
Synthetic speech samples
Listen to synthetic speech samples from our demo voice.
Development pattern for contributors
- Create a personal fork of the main Merlin repository in GitHub.
- Make your changes in a named branch different from
master
, e.g. you create a branchmy-new-feature
. - Generate a pull request through the Web interface of GitHub.
Contact Us
Post your questions, suggestions, and discussions to GitHub Issues.
Citation
If you publish work based on Merlin, please cite:
Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King, "Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System" in Proc. 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW9), September 2016, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.