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From: uclyams@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Andrew Simpson)
Subject: KPE - A Klatt Synthesiser Parameter Editor
Summary: KPE - An X-Windows Interface to the Klatt(80) Synthesiser
Message-ID: <1994Sep27.095659.44909@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:56:59 GMT
Organization: University College London
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KPE - A Klatt Parameter Editor
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This program provides a simple graphical interface for the implementation
of the Klatt 1980 synthesiser provided by Jon Iles
(j.p.iles@cs.bham.ac.uk) and Nick Ing-Simmons (nicki@lobby.ti.com).

It was inspired by IGE, a piece of code written by Rob Fletcher
(rpf1@unix.york.ac.uk).

The comprises an X-Windows interface written using the SUIT 
toolkit and version 3.03 of the synthesiser code.

The interface allows users to display and edit Klatt parameters using
a graphical display which includes the time-amplitude waveform of the
resultant synthetic speech.  The code was written to help in the
production of copy syntheses of natural speech tokens, and so also
includes the facility to display the original speech waveform together
with its synthetic copy.  In addition to being able to play back both
original and synthetic stimuli and match them 'by ear', it is possible
to compare short term spectra of regions of both stimuli.

An example of a natural speech token, and a rough synthesised copy are
included.

The code has been written to use the Speech Filing System (SFS)
available from UCL; this can be obtained via anonymous FTP.  This was
used to calculate the initial parameter value estimates.

I should stress that the code is supplied 'as is' and no promises are
made about its reliability.  It would be nice to get feedback on it,
and to develop it further.

The code has been developed on a Sun Sparc10, but should work on a
Sparc2 as well, although the audio output won't be as good.  A Linux
version is also available.

Where to get the code:

via anonymous ftp from:

pc13.phon.ucl.ac.uk:/pub/kpe/kpe80.sun4.tar	KPE for sun4 systems
pc13.phon.ucl.ac.uk:/pub/kpe/kpe80.linux.tar	KPE for linux systems

pitch.phon.ucl.ac.uk:/pub/sfs:			The SFS distribution.

Andrew Simpson
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
University College London
Wolfson House
4 Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HE

kpe@pc13.phon.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/

Apologies for minimal documentation. Feedback welcome.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


