Lean Start-Up - 24th April 2018 - Take part in the first in the series of workshops, the LEAN STARTUP, dedicated to the lean start-up methodology and learn about key techniques designed to create fast-growing ventures.REGISTER YOUR INTEREST: If you’d like to take part in this programme or require further details, please contact Anna on or call 01223 422379. Each workshop will last half a day with time for networking and will be held at our offices, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS. St John’s Innovation Centre will be delivering all 8 workshops and meet-ups in Cambridge. Together with four European project partners, The Technical University of Cartagena, Blu Specs Innovation, Poznan Science and Technology Park) and UAB Civitta, St John’s Innovation Centre will deliver training, networking and follow-on support through thematic workshops, webinars on SME growth and business models, international conference workshops and meet-ups with potential customers and commercial partners.
St John’s Innovation Centre is a partner for the recently launched fully funded MERLIN (Methodologies for Researcher Led Innovations)project aimed to support ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) researchers, post-docs, SMEs and start-ups across Europe to realise the full potential and impact of their research and to support them with market validation and commercialisation. 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW9), September 2016, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.CALL FOR ICT RESEARCHERS, POST-DOCS, SMEs and START-UPS: Apply for fully funded, market-driven R&D strategy innovation programme.Īre you a researcher wanting to exploit your ICT research results and have you considered them as a spin-off, patent or licence? Are you a MERLIN project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 programme? Are you an ICT start-up looking to bring a new idea or process to market? Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King, " Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System" in Proc. If you publish work based on Merlin, please cite: Post your questions, suggestions, and discussions to GitHub Issues. Make your changes in a named branch different from master, e.g.This research could not be accomplished without the help of Volunteers and Interns who assist in the research program and Citizen Scientists who report Merlin sightings in the Pacific Northwest and beyond Perched. Listen to synthetic speech samples from our SLT arctic voice. Since 1983 the Coastal Forest Merlin Project has worked to combine its findings into several scientific papers and a national book. Deep Learning for Text-to-Speech Synthesis, using the Merlin toolkit (Interspeech 2017 tutorial).
On how to install Merlin and build SLT demo voice.įor a more in-depth tutorial about building voices with Merlin, you can check out: Now, you can also follow Josh Meyer's blog post for detailed instructions To run the example system builds, see egs/README.txtĪs a first demo, please follow the scripts in egs/slt_arctic These instructions are valid for UNIX systems including various flavors of Linux Getting started with Merlin To install Merlin, cd merlin and run the below steps:įor detailed instructions, to build the toolkit: see INSTALL and CSTR blog post. sklearn, keras, h5py (optional, required if you use keras models).
tensorflow (optional, required if you use tensorflow models).Media & Agencies, Research & Development, Education and others.
Merlin is compatible with: Python 2.7-3.6. With Hook you can link Merlin Project items to and from anything that is also linkable.
Merlin is free software, distributed under an Apache License Version 2.0, allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike. Merlin comes with recipes (in the spirit of the Kaldi automatic speech recognition toolkit) to show you how to build state-of-the art systems. The system is written in Python and relies on the Theano numerical computation library. It must be used in combination with a front-end text processor (e.g., Festival) and a vocoder (e.g., STRAIGHT or WORLD). Merlin is a toolkit for building Deep Neural Network models for statistical parametric speech synthesis. This repository contains the Neural Network (NN) based Speech Synthesis Systemĭeveloped at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of Merlin: The Neural Network (NN) based Speech Synthesis System