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open_jtalk(1) General Commands Manual open_jtalk(1)

open_jtalk — Japanese TTS system

open_jtalk [options] [infile]

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).

A summary of options is included below.

dictionary directory
HTS voice files
filename of output wav audio (generated speech)
filename of output trace information
sampling frequency [ auto][ 1-- ]
frame period (point) [ auto][ 1-- ]
all-pass constant [ auto][ 0.0-- 1.0]
postfiltering coefficient [ 0.0][ 0.0-- 1.0]
speech speed rate [ 1.0][ 0.0-- ]
additional half-tone [ 0.0][ -- ]
voiced/unvoiced threshold [ 0.5][ 0.0-- 1.0]
weight of GV for spectrum [ 1.0][ 0.0-- ]
weight of GV for log F0 [ 1.0][ 0.0-- ]
audio buffer size (if i==0, turn off) [ 0][ 0-- ]
text file [stdin]

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 

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.