Voice with new dictionary and phone set

[Tom A]

You have provided the necessary tools for creating a voice using the unilex dictionaries and phone sets for rpx, edi and gam. Provided I have a surface level lexicon rhotic-rpx.out for a new accent, but otherwise want to use rpx lts rules, what files would I need to change to make this voice? I assume I would need to change the build-unitsel.scm file (especially lines 196-215) but I’m unsure how.

Entries in the rhotic-rpx.out file are in the form:

(“reflecter” nn (((r i) 0) ((f l e k t) 1) ((@ r) 0)))

[Korin Richmond]

As discussed (+hopefully solved!) in the lab today, you need to:

– follow the instructions in the Festival manual on defining a new lexicon
https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_13.html#:~:text=A%20Lexicon%20in%20Festival%20is,words%20not%20in%20either%20list

(including compiling the lexicon first)

– and then add a few lines in the build-unitsel.scm file (so, save a copy to your home space and then edit it), in order to define what to do if the user who’s building a voice requests your new lexicon)

(solved in the lab, but summarised above for completeness and future users!)

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