open_jtalk(1)

✨ open_jtalk — Japanese TTS system ✨

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because this is the open_jtalk(1) manual page and it's about to make your terminal sing 🎤💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

open_jtalk [options]  [infile]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options in, Japanese text in, speech out. 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, this manual page gives you the quick rundown on the open_jtalk command. 📝

it was written for the Debian distribution specifically because the original program doesn't ship with a manual page at all — it has documentation in the GNU Info format instead, which you can go peek at (see below 👀).

open_jtalk is a program that synthesizes speech waveforms from Japanese texts. it uses HMMs trained by the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS). no cap, it literally turns your words into actual audio. 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the summary of options, queen. every single one, no skips, we don't gatekeep here 💖

• -x dir — dictionary directory 📚
• -m htsvoice — HTS voice files 🗣️
• -ow s — filename of output wav audio (the generated speech, i.e. your masterpiece) 🎧
• -ot s — filename of output trace information 🔍
• -s i — sampling frequency, [ auto][ 1-- ] ⏱️
• -p i — frame period (point), [ auto][ 1-- ] 📏
• -a f — all-pass constant, [ auto][ 0.0-- 1.0] 🌀
• -b f — postfiltering coefficient, [ 0.0][ 0.0-- 1.0] 🎚️
• -r f — speech speed rate, [ 1.0][ 0.0-- ] 🏃♀️
• -fm f — additional half-tone, [ 0.0][ -- ] 🎵
• -u f — voiced/unvoiced threshold, [ 0.5][ 0.0-- 1.0] 🤫
• -jm f — weight of GV for spectrum, [ 1.0][ 0.0-- ] 🌈
• -jf f — weight of GV for log F0, [ 1.0][ 0.0-- ] 🎀
• -z i — audio buffer size (if i==0, turn off), [ 0][ 0-- ] 🔇
• infile — text file, defaults to [stdin] 📄

🌟 EXAMPLE 🌟

say you installed hts-voice-nitech-jp-atr503-m001 in the current directory — then this command lets you make a voice file from input.txt:

% open_jtalk -s 48000 -p 240 -a 0.55 \
-m nitech_jp_atr503_m001.htsvoice \
-ow output.wav \
-x dic_dir input.txt

go off, honestly 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Koichi Akabe vbkaisetsu@gmail.com for the Debian system (and may be used by others, share the love ✨). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 💖

and that's the whole page bestie!! you're officially an open_jtalk girlie now, go synthesize something iconic 💅🎀

that was open_jtalk(1) from the General Commands Manual — mwah, bye!! 🌈💖✨