./audio/festvox-us3, MBROLA based American English male voice for festival

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Branch: pkgsrc-2022Q3, Version: 1.96, Package name: festvox-us3-1.96, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

MBROLA based American English male voice for the festival speech
synthesis system.

This voice provides a American English male voice using the MBROLA
synthesis method. It uses a modified CMU lexicon for pronunciations.
Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically trained model using
part of speech and local distribution of breaks. Intonation is
provided by a CART tree predicting ToBI accents and an F0 contour
generated from a model trained from natural speech. The duration
model is also trained from data using a CART tree.

The quality of this voice is not as high as us1 and us2

This voice can be activated via (voice_us3_mbrola)

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