This repository contains the Neural Network (NN) based Speech Synthesis System
developed at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of Edinburgh.

To build the toolkit: see ./INSTALL. These instructions are valid for UNIX systems including various flavors of Linux;

To run the example system builds, see egs/README.txt

As a first demo, please follow the scripts in egs/slt_arctic

Listen to synthetic speech samples from our demo voice.

1. Create a personal fork of the [main Merlin repository] (https://github.com/CSTR-Edinburgh/merlin) in GitHub.
2. Make your changes in a named branch different from master, e.g. you create a branch my-new-feature.
3. Generate a pull request through the Web interface of GitHub.

Post your questions, suggestions, and discussions to GitHub Issues.

If you publish work based on Merlin, please cite:

Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King, "Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System" in Proc. 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW9), September 2016, Sunnyvale, CA, USA