I’m going to assume that you’ll put everything in your Documents directory. Download this zip file, unzip it (you might find that it is unzipped automatically after download) and move the resulting “ss” folder to your Documents folder. Open a Terminal and check that everything looks OK. bash$ is the bash prompt (yours may look different).
bash$ cd ~/Documents bash$ cd ss bash$ ls
and you should see three folders (pm, recordings, wav) and three files (setup.sh, utts.data, utts.pauses).
If you installed all the tools needed for this exercise yourself, you now need to edit the two paths in setup.sh. The variable SSROOTDIR should point at the root directory of your installed tools, and FROOTDIR should point at the Festival installation within there.
Every time you open a new Terminal to work on this exercise, you need to run the setup.sh script. Let’s do it now:
bash$ source setup.sh
You won’t see any output, but various environment variables have been configured for you. By the end of the exercise, you’ll have more folders than this; here’s the complete list:
| Folder | Contains |
|---|---|
| recordings | speech recordings, copied from the studio |
| wav | individual wav files for each utterance |
| pm | pitch marks |
| mfcc | MFCCs for use in automatic alignment |
| lab | label files from automatic alignment |
| utt | Festival utterance structures |
| f0 | Pitch contours |
| coef | MFCCs + f0, for the join cost |
| coef2 | coef, but stripped of unnecessary frames to save space, for the join cost |
| lpc | LPCs and residuals, for waveform generation |