
CMU ARCTIC BDL

This directory contains a recording of the phonetically balanced US
English CMU ARCTIC database by BDL, a US English speaker.

See http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/ for details on the 
database coverage and other recordings of this dataset

The format follows the Festvox (http://www.festvox.org) directory
structure.

The directory structure is 
 bin/
     basic scripts for building prompts, labelling feature files etc.s
 cep/
     Ceptrum files dynamically created in phone autolabellingl
 dic/
     Final diphone dictionary final (used at run-time)
 etc/
     prompt file, and some labelling templates 
 festival/
     Not used in diphone bases
 festvox/
     scheme voice definition files (used at run-time)
 group/
     extracted diphones into signle group file for distribution
 lab/
     autolabelled phone labels
 lar/
     recorded EGG signal files (not used in this example)
 lpc/
     LPC parameters plus residuals, (used at run-time for nongrouped version)
 mcep/
     MFCC (Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients) not used in diphone databases
 pm/
     Pitchmark files as extract from waveforms (or EGG signal)
 pm_lab/
     derived pitchmark labeled files from pm/ enabling emulabel (and others
     display programs) to show the pitchmarks and waveform files.
 prompt-cep/
     cepstrum files for
 prompt-lab/
     label files for synthesized prompts 
 prompt-wav/
     waveforms of synthesized prompts
 prompt-utts/
     utterances of synthesized prompts
 wav/
     recorded spoken nonsense words (in Microsoft riff (wav) format).
     If you are using Xwaves you should convert these to NIST format






