Merlin integration with festival for Bengali language.

[Rajan-sust]

@pasindud sir, how you trained the TTS Voice without merlin defined in (https://github.com/googlei18n/language-resources/blob/master/bn/festvox/README.md).

I'm not understanding how can I integrate merlin with festival. I also viewed (https://github.com/googlei18n/language-resources/blob/master/bn/merlin/README.md).

Thanks in advance.

[pasindud]

As you might know (festvox/festival) and merlin are two TTS engines. We can setup festvox independently but you need to have a festvox setup to run merlin. Therefore you can train a festival voice first using this [1]. Then you can build a merlin voice using this [2], where you have to give the path to the festvox voice you built earlier.

1 - https://github.com/googlei18n/language-resources/blob/master/bn/festvox/README.md
2 - https://github.com/googlei18n/language-resources/blob/master/bn/merlin/README.md

[Rajan-sust]

Thanks for the reply, sir. If I face any problem later, I will query again.

[Rajan-sust]

@pasindud sir, I trained merlin successfully with festival following the README.md [1]. Now, how can I synthesis speech for a particular sentence. Please , provide me the command.
1 - https://github.com/googlei18n/language-resources/blob/master/bn/merlin/README.md

[pasindud]

During training some test wavs are synthesized, you can find those paths in the merlin log. To synth arbitrary sentences you have to use a script similar to [1] (with some modifications, mainly to the file paths). Let me try to put together a small script with those modifications. Also refer to [2] for more info on our voice building process.

[1] - https://github.com/googlei18n/language-resources/blob/master/docker-images/test-merlin/synth.sh

[2] - https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub47347

[Rajan-sust]

Thanks for the guideline @pasindud. Hope you will provide modified script.

[pasindud]

Can you try this script [1], Change the variables MERLIN_PATH and FESTIVAL_VOICE_PATH and
then run

echo "অলিম্পিক ইন্ডাস্ট্রিজ জীবনকে সহজ করে তুলেছে" | synth.sh "audio_file_name_without_wav_extension"

1 - https://gist.github.com/pasindud/c36dc0611e6bf8bee918a2863e6a0939

[Rajan-sust]

@pasindud Sir, it worked perfectly. I am really grateful to you for your collaboration.

[pasindud]

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