CSTR, University of Edinburgh · 1996– · diphone

Festival

The academic concatenative workhorse. This sample is the stock kal diphone voice: recorded phone pairs glued at their most stable point. You can hear the joins. That is the method.

Known for

The system a generation of papers compared against.

Shared bench script

kal_diphone · Generated locally with Festival text2wave, kal diphone voice.

Listen closely. Every voice on this bench is a machine, reading the same line.

Shared bench script

kal_diphone · Generated locally with Festival text2wave, kal diphone voice.

The rain had not stopped for three days. On the fourth morning, the river finally broke its banks, and the town of Millfield learned what water can do when it is given time.

Shared bench script

kal_diphone · Generated locally with Festival text2wave, kal diphone voice.

I told you we should have left at dawn. And miss the last train? Don't be ridiculous. Sit down. We'll figure this out.

Shared bench script

kal_diphone · Generated locally with Festival text2wave, kal diphone voice.

At 8:15 this morning, officials confirmed that Route 47 will remain closed through Friday while crews repair the collapsed overpass near Cedar Junction.

Shared bench script

kal_diphone · Generated locally with Festival text2wave, kal diphone voice.

Please transfer $1,247.50 to account 883-21, then call Dr. Nguyen at 555-0142 before 3:30 p.m. on March 9th.

Year / era
1996
License class
open
Cloning
No
Streaming
No
Emotion controls
No
Languages (tags)
en
Official
Source
Kokoro 82M · af_heart