| - [Attributes](#attributes) | - [Attributes](#attributes) | ||||
| - [Sound Specifications](#sound-specifications) | - [Sound Specifications](#sound-specifications) | ||||
| - [Vowel Transitions](#vowel-transitions) | - [Vowel Transitions](#vowel-transitions) | ||||
| - [Customization of sound source files](#customization-of-sound-source-files) | |||||
| ---------- | ---------- | ||||
| vowels that it uses, but inherit most of its consonants from a standard | vowels that it uses, but inherit most of its consonants from a standard | ||||
| set. | set. | ||||
| The source files for the phoneme data are in the "phsource" directory in | |||||
| the espeakedit download package. "Vowel files", which are referenced in | |||||
| `FMT()`, `VowelStart()`, and `VowelEnding()` instructions are made using the | |||||
| espeakedit program. | |||||
| The source files for the phoneme data are in the "phsource" directory. | |||||
| "Vowel files", which are referenced in `FMT()`, `VowelStart()`, and `VowelEnding()` | |||||
| instructions are made using the `espeakedit` program which is not part of this project. | |||||
| See more in [Customization of sound source files](#customization-of-sound-source-files). | |||||
| ## Phoneme Files | ## Phoneme Files | ||||
| glstop | glstop | ||||
| Indicates a glottal stop. | Indicates a glottal stop. | ||||
| ## Customization of sound source files | |||||
| * You need [Espeakedit](http://espeak.sourceforge.net/editor.html) to change sound parameters of vowel definition files. | |||||
| On Debian/Ubuntu based systems you can install it with command: | |||||
| ``` | |||||
| sudo apt-get install espeakedit | |||||
| ``` | |||||
| If your 64-bit Linux system doesn't have this package, you can download just compiled binary file from | |||||
| [here](https://github.com/valdisvi/espeak-ng-espeakedit/blob/master/bin/espeakedit?raw=true). | |||||
| To edit *.wav files for sonorant/consonant phonemes you may also need: | |||||
| * [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/) can be used as sound editor for consonant sounds (*.wav) files. | |||||
| Audacity may be also used to analyse [sound spectrum](https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spectrogram_view.html) | |||||
| (use maximum window size to see harmonics clearly). | |||||
| On Debian/Ubuntu based systems you can install it with command: | |||||
| ``` | |||||
| sudo apt-get install audacity | |||||
| ``` | |||||
| * [Praat](http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/) can be used to do more detailed analysis of recorded voice files. | |||||
| On Debian/Ubuntu based systems you can install it with command: | |||||
| ``` | |||||
| sudo apt-get install praat | |||||
| ``` | |||||
| `Praat` can also provide initial settings for vowel definitions to `espeakedit`. | |||||