PhatVoice User's Guide

Contents

Preface
Preface	Preface
Chapter 1
1	Introduction
1.1	Overview
1.1.1	Using hints to improve pronunciation
1.1.2	Generating speech for song titles
1.1.3	Utilizing additional Natural Voices
1.2	Additional resources
Chapter 2
2	Installing PhatVoice
2.1	Installation prerequisites
2.2	Installing using the PhatVoice Setup Wizard
2.3	Installing from the zipfile
2.4	Necessary changes on the PhatBox DMS
2.4.1	Firmware revision
2.4.2	phatbox.ini changes
2.4.3	The title.mp3 file
Chapter 3
3	Running PhatVoice
3.1	Generating speech
3.2	Post-processing the audio files
3.2.1	Processing with Yamp
3.2.2	Processing with SoX
Chapter 4
4	Customizing Pronunciations
4.1	The pronunciation hints file
4.1.1	Substitutions and regular expressions
4.1.2	The phonetic alphabet and other engine hints
4.1.3	Some useful things to know about Natural Voices
4.1.4	Obtaining additional Natural Voices
4.2	Testing your pronunciations
4.2.1	Testing hints using PhatVoice
4.2.2	Testing hints using the Microsoft Speech engine
4.2.3	Testing hints using the AT&T Natural Voices engine
4.2.4	Generating debugging output to to verify pronunciations
Chapter 5
5	Uninstalling PhatVoice
5.1	Uninstalling using the Uninstall PhatVoice Start Menu item
5.2	Manually uninstalling PhatVoice
Chapter 6
6	Changes from previous versions, corrected problems, and known problems
6.1	Changes from previous versions
6.2	Corrected problems
6.3	Known problems
Chapter 7
7	Rebuilding PhatVoice from source
7.1	Other needed software and prerequisites
7.2	Steps needed for rebuilding
Tables
4-1	The SAPI 5 US English Phonetic Alphabet