Id1 Database

Release 1
-------------------------------------------------------------Table of Contents
-------------------------------------------------------------1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0

A brief description of the ID1 database

Distribution
Installation, and tests
Acknowledgments

-------------------------------------------------------------1.0 A Brief Description of ID1

-------------------------------------------------------------ID1 is a Indonesian diphone database provided in the
context of the MBROLA project
(see http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis).
It provides a Indonesian male voice to be used with the MBROLA program.
List of phoneme available :
PHONEME
p
b
t
d
k
g

EXAMPLE
apa
abang
atap
tadi
akan
gila

SAMPA EQUIVALENT
p
b
t
d
k
g

c
j
f
s
z
h

cari
jadi
kafan
kasar
zebra
hitam

tS
dZ
f
s
z
h

m
n
ng
r
l
w
y
ny

aman
anda
angka
armada
alamat
bawa
bahaya
kenyang

m
n
N
r
l
w
j
nY

a
e
e
i
o
u

bapa
petang
medan
bila
mohon
bukan

V
@
e
I
Q
U

ai
oi
au

santai
amboi
lampau

aI
OI
aU

silence

-------------------------------------------------------------2.0 Distribution
-------------------------------------------------------------This distribution of mbrola contains the following files :
id1
: the database itself
id1.txt : This file
license.txt : must read before using the database
indo1.pho: sample pho files
Additional languages and voices, as well as other example command
files, are or will be available in the context of the MBROLA
project. Please consult the MBROLA project homepage :
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis
Registered users will automatically be notified of the availability
of new databases. To freely register, simply send an email to
mbrola-interest-request@tcts.fpms.ac.be with the word 'subscribe'
in the message title.
-------------------------------------------------------------3.0 Installation and Tests
-------------------------------------------------------------If you have not copied the MBROLA software yet, please consult
the MBROLA project homepage and get it.
Copy id1.zip into the mbrola directory and unzip it :
unzip id1.zip (or pkunzip on PC/DOS)
(don't forget to delete the .zip file when this is done)
Try
mbrola indo1.pho
to create a sound file. In this example the audio file follows
the RIFF Wav format. But depending on the extension test.au, test.aif,
or test.raw you can obtain other file formats. Listen to it with your
favorite sound editor, and try other command files (*.pho) to have
a better idea of the quality of speech you can synthesize with the
MBROLA technique.
On Unix systems you can pipe the audio ouput to the sound player as
on a HP : mbrola br2 1.pho - | splayer -srate 22050 -l16
Also refer to the readme.txt file provided with the mbrola
software for using it.
-------------------------------------------------------------4.0 Acknowledgements
--------------------------------------------------------------

I would like to Thierry Dutoit to let me work in TCTS Lab in Mons, Belgium.
Thanks also for everyone in TCTS Lab for nice working environment.
Thanks also to LIPPO-Indonesia for sponsoring me to go to Belgium.
-------------------------------------------------------------Mons, Belgium
Arry Akhmad Arman
Lecturer/Researcher from Institut Teknologi Bandung
Bandung - Indonesia
e-mail: aa@lss.ee.itb.ac.id, for questions concerning the
database id1.
e-mail: mbrola@tcts.fpms.ac.be, for general information,
questions on the installation of software and databases.