[mary-users] MARY 5 + MBROLA?

[Ingmar Steiner]

Dear Jaume,

the MBROLA diphone synthesis back-end relies on sending the MBROLA 
control parameters to the native `mbrola` binary corresponding to your 
platform. Unfortunately, the MBROLA mainainers seem to have never 
updated their code to work on the 64-bit CPU architectures that are now 
used everywhere.

Having said that, there is a workaround to use MaryTTS 5+, specifically 
the RemoteMaryInterface introduced in that version, with a separate 
MaryTTS 4 server that has MBROLA voices installed *and is running on a 
supported platform*, i.e., a Linux or 32-bit OS. But the MaryTTS 4 
server needs to be built from source using a patch [1] that is in the 
`4.x` branch.

We're actually planning to improve the situation and get MBROLA to run 
on modern machines, but I can't make any promises when it will be done.

Best wishes,

-Ingmar

[1] 
https://github.com/marytts/marytts/commit/fe86110fc0c5b1a482cc1e42554d412d7ac93b9a

On 11/19/14 10:15 PM, Jaume Ferrete wrote:
> Hello, does MARY 5 still allow for the use of MBROLA voices?
>
> If "yes", is there any resource on how to install MBROLA voices for MARY ?
>
> Thank you very much!
> Jaume
>
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