tdmelodic_openjtalk

This repository provides an openjtalk-style format of tdmelodic, an accent dictionary of Japanese that is robust to many neologisms.

tdmelodic and openjtalk

tdmelodic: an opensource accent dictionary Japanese that estimates the accent of the words listed in NEologd dictionary by a machine learning-based technique.
openjtalk: an opensource Japanese text-to-speech (TTS) engine that includes TTS front-end, e.g., full-context labels generation. Its Python wrapper pyopenjtalk is used in ESPnet.

Install

You can install this dictionary by adding it to the pre-stored dictionaries.

for openjtalk (C++)

Download tdmelodic_openjtalk.csv
Download openjtalk from http://open-jtalk.sp.nitech.ac.jp/.
Unzip the downloaded zip file and move to the directory.
concatenate tdmelodic_openjtalk.csv to mecab-naist-jdic/*.csv, e.g.,

$ cp mecab-naist-jdic/unidic-csj.csv mecab-naist-jdic/unidic-csj_org.csv 
$ cat tdmelodic_openjtalk.csv mecab-naist-jdic/unidic-csj_org.csv > mecab-naist-jdic/unidic-csj.csv

Compile the source code of openjtalk.

for pyopenjtalk (Python)

Someone, tell me the way.

# clone pyopenjtalk to your pc
$ git clone https://github.com/r9y9/pyopenjtalk.git
$ cd pyopenjtalk
# clone submodules
$ git submodule update --recursive --init
# next append the dic file
$ cp lib/open_jtalk/src/mecab-naist-jdic/naist-jdic.csv lib/open_jtalk/src/mecab-naist-jdic/naist-jdic_org.csv
$ cat this-repo/tdmelodic_openjtalk.csv lib/open_jtalk/src/mecab-naist-jdic/naist-jdic_org.csv > lib/open_jtalk/src/mecab-naist-jdic/naist-jdic.csv
# finally install modified pyopenjtalk
$ pip install -e .

Author

Shinnosuke Takamichi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Junya Koguchi (Meiji Univ., Japan)

License

Non-commercial purpose (research purpose) only