The Neural Network (NN) based Speech Synthesis System

This repository contains the Neural Network (NN) based Speech Synthesis System
developed at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of Edinburgh.

To build the toolkit: see ./INSTALL. These instructions are valid for UNIX systems including various flavors of Linux;

To run the example system builds, see egs/README.txt

Getting started with Merlin

As a first demo, please follow the scripts in egs/slt_arctic

Now, you can also follow Josh Meyer's blog post for detailed instructions
on how to install Merlin and build SLT demo voice.

Synthetic speech samples

Listen to synthetic speech samples from our demo voice.

Development pattern for contributors

1. Create a personal fork of the main Merlin repository in GitHub.
2. Make your changes in a named branch different from master, e.g. you create a branch my-new-feature.
3. Generate a pull request through the Web interface of GitHub.

Contact Us

Post your questions, suggestions, and discussions to GitHub Issues.

Citation

If you publish work based on Merlin, please cite:

Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King, "Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System" in Proc. 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW9), September 2016, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.