Muse: An open source speech technology research platform

Abstract

This paper introduces the open source muster speech engine (Muse) for speech technology research. The Muse platform abstracts common data types and software as used by speech technology researchers. It is designed to assist researchers in making repeatable experiments that are not hard coded to a specific platform, language, algorithm, or corpus. It contains a script language and a shell where users can interact with various components. The presentation of this paper will be accompanied by a demo at the SLT workshop.

UCD Blizzard Challenge 2011 Entry

“…While the core of the system was developed in C#, the synthesiser invokes functionality from external tools such as MATLAB, shell scripts, HTK, etc. using the Muse platform [1].…”