American English male speaker "Kevin" for Festival
Description
American English male speaker ("Kevin") for Festival.
This voice provides an American English male voice using a residual excited LPC diphone synthesis
method. It uses the CMU Lexicon pronunciations. Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically
trained model using part of speech and local distribution of breaks. Intonation is provided by a
CART tree predicting ToBI accents and an F0 contour generated from a model trained from natural
speech. The duration model is also trained from data using a CART tree.
