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

As a first demo, please follow the scripts in egs/slt_arctic

Synthetic speech samples

Listen to synthetic speech samples from our demo voice.

Development pattern for contributors

1. Create a personal fork of the [main Merlin repository] (https://github.com/CSTR-Edinburgh/merlin) in GitHub.
2. Make your changes in a named branch different from master, e.g. you create a branch my-new-feature.
3. 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