NAME

       open_jtalk — Japanese TTS system

SYNOPSIS

       open_jtalk [options]  [infile]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the open_jtalk command.

       This  manual  page  was  written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a
       manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in the GNU       Info format; see below.

       open_jtalk is a program that synthesize speech waveform from Japanese texts. It uses HMMs trained by  the
       HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS).

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -x  dir   dictionary directory

       -m  htsvoice
                 HTS voice files

       -ow s     filename of output wav audio (generated speech)

       -ot s     filename of output trace information

       -s  i     sampling frequency [ auto][   1--    ]

       -p  i     frame period (point) [ auto][   1--    ]

       -a  f     all-pass constant [ auto][ 0.0-- 1.0]

       -b  f     postfiltering coefficient [  0.0][ 0.0-- 1.0]

       -r  f     speech speed rate [  1.0][ 0.0--    ]

       -fm f     additional half-tone [  0.0][    --    ]

       -u  f     voiced/unvoiced threshold [  0.5][ 0.0-- 1.0]

       -jm f     weight of GV for spectrum [  1.0][ 0.0--    ]

       -jf f     weight of GV for log F0 [  1.0][ 0.0--    ]

       -z  i     audio buffer size (if i==0, turn off) [    0][   0--    ]

       infile    text file [stdin]

EXAMPLE

       If  you installed hts-voice-nitech-jp-atr503-m001 in the current directory, the following command let you
       make a voice file from input.txt:

              % open_jtalk -s 48000 -p 240 -a 0.55 \
              -m nitech_jp_atr503_m001.htsvoice \
              -ow output.wav \
              -x dic_dir input.txt

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Koichi Akabe vbkaisetsu@gmail.com for the Debian system (and may be  used
       by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

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