GGGGG RRRRR 1111 GG G R R 11 11 G R R 11 11 G R R 11 11 G GGGGG RRRRRR 11 G GG R R 11 G GG R R 11 GG GG R R 11 GGGGG R R release 1.01 ------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Brief description of GR1 database a.SAMPA examples b.Special features c.Limitations 2. Distribution 3. Diphones included 4. Acknowledgments ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Brief description of GR1 database ------------------------------------------------------- GR1 1.00 release is a Hellenic diphone database provided in the context of the MBROLA project (http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis). It provides a Greek male voice to be used with the MBROLA program. Input files use the SAMPA (SAM Phonetic Alphabet) notation as recommended by the EEC-SAM Project. Here is a list of the Greek speech sounds it accounts for, with examples. [ASCII ISO8859-1 encode; use ASCII editor to see it correctly] a. SAMPA examples -------------------------------------------------------- SAMPA Example (othographic) GR1-Mbroli player transcription _ (silence) _ a Asteri asteri o Oreos oreos u Ute ute e Elato elato i Ippeas ipeas p PaPas papas b Belas belas t Tipos tipos d Dimenos dimenos k Kamenos kamenos c paKeto,Kima paceto,cima g Garizo garizo gj aGGelos,Ginia angjelos,gjinja ts TSatismenos tsatizmenos dz aTZamis adzamis v Varkaris varkaris D aTHerfos,THelfini aDerfos,Delfini f Fotia,fasi fotja,fasi x Xoros xoros C Xeri,Xina Ceri,Cina T THalassa Talasa G Gala,Gamos Gala,Gamos jj Giorti,Gios jjorti,jjos z Zalismenos zalizmenos r Rota,Roga rota,roGa l allos,Logariasmos alos,loGarjazmos m Minas minas n Niki,Nikos nici,nikos j elIa,idIos,ennIa elja,iDjos,enja Only rudimentary implemented: n (as an Allophone) in cases such as aggelos,feggari angjelos,fengari b. Special Features -------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All diphthongs are covered. Special treatment has been given to (excessive) diphthongs like in 'piato','niata','diafora' (=pjato ,=njata ,=Djafora) where acoustic representation (phone) of /i/ depends on previous consonant, when phonemic represantation ('j') is kept the same. Consonant "mishaps" (exceptions) have been taken into account. So, don't expect diphones like /sv/,/sG/ : they have been replaced by /zv/,/zG/ respectively. For example we write 'asvestis' but we pronnounce /azvestis/. Read table.xls for a complete list of included diphones. For best synthesis results it is recommended to avoid pauses between words, so inter-word phone combinations have been included. c. Limitation --------------------------------------------------------- Notice that not all diphones are possible (C-n for example) Inter-word phone combinations, which can be found due to the use of foreign words in Greek vocabulary and may not be included in the db, can be replaced by 'phone1'+pause+'phone2'. That's why most of 'phone'+silence, silence+'phone' combinations have been included. Read table.xls for a complete list of included diphones. /mb/ diphone is NOT included because of inattention. Replace it with /b/. Next release of GR1 WILL include it. /is/ diphone seems having metamorphosed to /us/. We apologize for the mistakes. Next release of GR1 WILL correct each of them. --------------------------------------------------------- 2. Distribution --------------------------------------------------------- This distribution of mbrola db contains the following files: gr1 :the MBROLA database gr1.txt :this file table.xls : a MS-Excel (WIN 95, ver.7) table with all GR1 diphones. .PHO examples in TEST directory 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. Diphones Included ---------------------------------------------------------- All diphones included can be found in Table.xls ---------------------------------------------------------- 4. Acknowledgments ---------------------------------------------------------- We would like to thank our associable speaker, A.Yiamalis, for his constant pitch (around 100 Hz). We appreciate the help of people at Electroacoustics Lab of our department, where recordings were made. Finally, we would like to thank Thierry Dutoit and Vincent Pagel for their help in building an efficient version of this database. Aggelos Bletsas email:ample@egnatia.ee.auth.gr Dr George Sergiadis email:sergiadi@vergina.eng.auth.gr tel: ++3-31-996314 fax: ++3-31-996312 MRI Lab-Telecommunication Lab Electrical Engineering Department Aristotle University of Thessaloniki