Only needed if you are setting this exercise up on your own. Edinburgh students should skip this step.
- A working Python installation (exercise tested with versions 2.7 and 3.6 but should be fine with other versions)
- Festival (use the latest version), plus
- Edinburgh Speech Tools (from the same place as Festival), compiled with the Python wrappers
- Various libraries (see Festival / Edinburgh Speech Tools documentation for dependencies) including lib32ncurses5-dev and libX11-dev
- HTK (if you use 3.4.1 then fix this bug related to ERROR +8522)
- sox
WARNING: setting this exercise up on your own machine is non-trivial! It requires advanced skills in compiling code from source. This page is only intended to help experts set up machines for summer school courses.